NDLEA apprehends Paris-Bound businessman smuggling 2.222 kilograms of heroin at Abuja airport

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has made a significant arrest at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja. Sherif Egbo Ally, a 40-year-old businessman based in Spain, was taken into custody for his involvement in ill#cit drug tr@fficking. He had attempted to board an Air France flight to Paris, France, but NDLEA operatives discovered that he had ingested ill#cit drugs.

The arrest, which took place on October 14, was made possible when a body scanner revealed that Mr. Egbo had wraps of ill#cit drugs in his stomach. Subsequently, he was placed under observation at the agency’s exhibit recovery room, where he excreted 93 pellets of heroin weighing 2.222 kilograms.

According to the suspect’s statement, he claimed to work at a chicken hatchery farm in Madrid, Spain, but was also involved in the drug tr@fficking business.

In another operation at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos on October 16, NDLEA operatives seized a shipment of 10 cartons containing 500,000 pills of tramadol 225mg, branded as tapentadol. This cargo, which had been shipped from India through Qatar Airways, was purported to be a transit cargo to Monrovia, Liberia. However, a successful partnership and real-time intelligence sharing between the NDLEA and its Liberian counterpart exposed the attempt to smuggle the drugs.

The NDLEA continued its vigilance at Lagos airport, thwarting another drug tr@fficking attempt. Ngene Chinecherem Oscar, who intended to travel to Muscat, Oman on Qatar Airways, was arrested for attempting to export 11.100 kilograms of skunk and 600 grams of tramadol concealed within foodstuffs.

In a separate operation, NDLEA officers from the Directorate of Operations and General Investigations (DOGI), who were attached to courier companies, intercepted a kilogram of methamphetamine concealed in containers of body cream destined for New Zealand. Another consignment of 2.5 kilograms of cocaine and phenacetin hidden in a carton was heading to Saudi Arabia. The Dimethyl Sulfone was concealed in the hollow of a motor driving shaft going to New Zealand, while the consignment of cocaine and phenacetin was packed into a bottle of body cream destined for Saudi Arabia.