30 Suspects Quizzed As NDLEA Seizes N4.4bn Cocaine At Lagos Airport

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Thirty suspects have been grilled after a bid by members of an international drug syndicate that operates between Brazil, Ethiopia and Nigeria to smuggle into Lagos a total of 845 wraps of cocaine weighing 18.72 kilograms was thwarted and the consignments recovered by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja.

According to a statement signed by the NDLEA’s Director of Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday, the drug consignments worth N4,492,800,000 in street value were recovered from two lavatories of an Ethiopian Airlines aircraft during the post-landing cleaning of the cabin of flight ET900 from Addis Ababa to Lagos on Tuesday, October 29, 2024.

The illicit drug consignments were wrapped in nine polythene bags and hidden in the waste collectors in the two rear lavatories of the aircraft, from where they were recovered after the MMIA Strategic Command of NDLEA was alerted about the strange…



Source: Leadership Newspaper