A 34-year-old South American man from Suriname, Dadda Lorenzo Harvy Albert, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Port Harcourt International Airport in Rivers State, South-South Nigeria for bringing into the country 117 parcels of Cocaine.
In a statement signed by NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, the illicit drugs were concealed in extra-large latex condoms factory packed inside bottles of 100ml body spray.
The suspect claimed he departed his country, Suriname, located on the North Eastern coast of South America on April 2 for Sao Paulo, Brazil and from Sao Paulo to Nigeria on Friday, April 7 on board Qatar Airways flight in search of his long-lost Nigerian father whom he called “Omini.”
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Meanwhile, the Sokoto State Command of the Agency also received 667.6 kilogrammes of Cannabis seized by men of the Nigeria Customs Service along the Illela-Niger Republic border.
Similarly, the NDLEA officers at Tincan seaport in Lagos have intercepted 110 parcels of Colorado, a strain of Cannabis, weighing 55 kilogrammes hidden in a container marked MSCU 4972769 from Toronto via Montreal, Canada.
The illicit consignment was discovered in the container bearing five units of used vehicles during a joint examination of the cargo by NDLEA and other port operatives.
The seizure was part of a total of 1,559.3 kilogrammes, about 1.5 tons of the psychoactive substance seized during interdiction operations in five states in the past week.
While two suspects, namely 40-year-old Nura Ibrahim and 38-year-old Habibu Sadiq were arrested with 120 blocks of Cannabis weighing 148.7 kilogrammes along Zaria-Kano Road in Kano State on Sunday, April 2, not less than
418.5 kilogrammes of the same substance and a Sienna space bus used in conveying it were recovered on Thursday, April 6 at a notorious drug hub, Patey in Lagos Island.
A suspect, Azi Solomon was also arrested the same day at Ojota Motor Park while attempting to move 23 kilogrammes of Cannabis to another state. Similarly, two suspects including Abubakar Abdulahi and Stanley Tobias were arrested on Friday, April 7 with 108,000 tablets of Tramadol at Oyingbo Motor Park in Lagos Mainland.
In Imo State, South-East Nigeria, NDLEA operatives on routine patrol along Owerri-Onitsha Expressway intercepted a commercial bus from which a total of 37, 210 pills of Opioids and 30 bottles of Codeine syrup were recovered and three suspects were arrested in follow-up operations.
In North-East Nigeria, a total of 40.9 kilogrammes of Cannabis were sized from two suspects, 32-year-old Haruna Adamu and 30-year-old Salisu Ibrahim in parts of Taraba State, just as 502, 840 pills of Tramadol and Exol-5 were recovered from a suspect, Imrana Aliyu in Wukari on Thursday, April 6 while 205.6 kilogrammes were recovered from the home of a fleeing suspect in Gida Dubu area of Bauchi metropolis.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
