The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 29-year-old South African, Erasmus Jean-Pierre for allegedly attempting to export 2.6 kilograms of methamphetamine concealed in his luggage to the Middle East through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Wednesday.
In a statement signed by the Media Officer of the NDLEA, Femi Babfemi and released on Sunday, addition to arresting the South African, the agency said it recovered the illicit drug.
It stated that the suspect was intercepted by NDLEA operatives during the outward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 404 from Abuja to the Middle East via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
A thorough search of his luggage led to the discovery of the whitish powdery illicit substance factory packed in different parts of the bag, the agency said.
It added that preliminary investigation reveals that the suspect arrived Lagos through Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire on Saturday 19th August, came to Abuja on Tuesday 22nd August, and took possession of the brown bag containing the drug consignment on Wednesday 23rd August before heading to the Abuja airport for his flight out of Nigeria.
Meanwhile, NDLEA said its officers in Gombe state on patrol along Darazo road on Monday 21st August recovered an abandoned Volkswagen Sharon vehicle marked GME 76 XD containing a total of 373,420 pills of opioids including tramadol and diazepam.
In the same vein, the agency said its operatives in Ogun State on Wednesday, August 23, raided the home of a drug dealer, Ifeanyi Orji in Ibafo area of the state where 81,000 tablets of tramadol 225mg weighing 32.4kgs were recovered.
In Adamawa State, NDLEA operatives on Tuesday 22nd August recovered 60,000 pills of tramadol from a suspect, Ibrahim Abba, 25, who was travelling in a commercial Toyota Starlet car from Kalaa village to Mubi.
Channels/ Titilayo Kupoliyi
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