An Indian national Neetu Neetu 42, has been arrested by operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) with 72 parcels of hard drugs otherwise called heroin.
She was arrested with the drugs at Aminu Kano international Airport in Kano, according to a statement issued by NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi in Abuja on Sunday.
The NDLEA image maker confirmed that the 72 parcels of heroin were factory sealed in wafer wraps and packaged as chocolates.
Babafemi said “the class A drug consignment weighing a total of 11 kilogrammes was recovered from Neetu’s luggage after a thorough search, following processed credible intelligence, during an inward clearance of Qatar Airways flight from Bangkok, Thailand, via Vietnam and Doha at the arrival hall of the Kano airport on Friday, March 14”.
The arrest of Neetu he added signifies a growing attempt by drug trafficking organisations to hire foreign nationals to move illicit drugs through the Nigerian borders.
He said the NDLEA operatives have been put on red alert to consistently apprehend perpetrators with the aid of modern technological tools and proactive intelligence.
In another interdiction operation in Kano Babafemi pointed out that NDLEA officers on Thursday, March 20, arrested a 45-year-old suspect, Michael Ogundele, with a 50-litre steel gas cylinder at Gadar Tamburawa, on Zaria-Kano Road.
The NDLEA spokesperson noted: “Based on credible intelligence, welding tools were later used to cut the giant cylinder after which 50,000 pills of tramadol 225mg concealed in it were extracted.
“While Sunday Ogar, 40, was nabbed at Gunduwawa area of Kano on Wednesday 19th March with 27kg skunk, a strain of cannabis, a female suspect Khadijah Abdullahi, 40, was arrested with 424 bottles of codeine-based syrup at Lungun Bulala Yalwa area of the state on Tuesday 18th March.”
Babafemi said the NDLEA continued to intensify its War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) social advocacy sensitisation engagements in schools, markets, and worship centres in the past week
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