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NDLEA Nabs Saudi-bound Trader With Cocaine

                   Mrs Kehinde Ajisegiri

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested Saudi-bound widow with cocaine concealed in footwear at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos.

The Director, Media and Advocacy of NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi disclosed this via a statement in Abuja on Sunday. 

Babafemi said that the 56-year-old widow and mother of four, Mrs Kehinde Ajisegiri, was arrested over her attempt to traffic 400 grams of cocaine concealed in her footwear en route Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

He stated that the suspect, who claimed to be a business woman trading in adults and children’s wears on Lagos Island was intercepted on Sunday November, 13.

The director stated that the suspect was arrested while trying to board a Qatar Airways flight going to Saudi Arabia via Doha.

He said that during critical examination of the pair of sandals the woman was wearing, that two parcels of cocaine weighing 400 grams were recovered from them. 

Also, a tricycle parts dealer, Tayo Ayoade, was arrested in an attempt to send 1kg of Tramadol 225mg and Rohypnol to Istanbul, Turkey, via Cairo on an Egypt-bound Airline. 

Babafemi said that the suspect was arrested on Sunday, November, 13 by the operatives of the NDLEA.

He said that the suspect was at the airport to hand over the drugs hidden inside a bag of food items to an intending passenger, Idowu Ayoade, but was arrested. 

The agency also intercepted about 5.6 kilograms of methamphetamine, cocaine and tramadol in Lagos.

NDLEA's spokesperson, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this on Sunday in Abuja.

Babafemi said that the drugs were discovered in items like play station, bicycles, motor propeller and local fabrics packaged for export to Australia and Cyprus through some courier firms in Lagos.

He disclosed that the two suspects, Gabriel Emeka and Vintura Grillo, were arrested in a follow-up operation linked to one of the seizures.

Also, in Niger, NDLEA operatives on stop and search operation along Mokwa-Jebba road on Saturday November, 12, arrested two suspects; Ismail Musa and Jidda Abbas, with 10,780 bottles of new psychoactive substance, popularly called Akuskura.

Babafemi maintained that the bottles of the substance were concealed inside two Toyota Camry saloon cars marked AGL 861 GS Lagos and KMK 118 SC Bayelsa.

He said that the consignment loaded in Ibadan, Oyo State, was heading to Abuja for distribution.

Again, NDLEA operatives intercepted 25,000 capsules of Tramadol in Plateau and arrested the owner, Ifeanyi Nweanwe, a beer parlour operator in a follow-up operation in Bauchi.

Babafemi emphasised that pharmaceutical opioids worth more than N30 million were intercepted in a commercial bus in Asaba, Delta, on Thursday November, 18.

Also in Ondo State, operatives stormed the Ijare Forest, in Ifedore Local Government Area on Friday November, 18, where a total of 600.5kgs of cannabis weed and seeds were recovered.

Babafemi said that 142.8kgs of the same substance were seized when NDLEA officers raided the zone 3 motor park in Wuse area of Abuja.

Meanwhile, operatives on routine patrol along Owerri-Onitsha road arrested a suspect, Nwankwo Emmanuel, with 25 blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 12.5kgs in a commercial bus going to Port Harcourt from Lagos. 

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