19-Year-Old Nigerian Student Going To Cyprus Arrested At Abuja Airport With Drugs Concealed In Crayfish Packages | Sahara Reporters

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A 19-year-old student identified as Benjamin Nnamani Daberechi has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for attempting to export 7.2 kilograms of methamphetamine concealed in crayfish to Europe where he was going for undergraduate studies. It was learnt that the Daberechi who was on his way to Cyprus for studies was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja by the narcotic agency.

19-Year-Old Nigerian Student Going To Cyprus Arrested At Abuja Airport With Drugs Concealed In Crayfish PackagesIt was learnt that the Daberechi who was on his way to Cyprus for studies was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja by the narcotic agency.

Femi Babafemi, Director of Media and Advocacy for NDLEA in a statement on Sunday, said the teenage suspect was intercepted on Wednesday, July 12, during an outward clearance of passengers on Turkish Airlines flight TK 0624. "In the same vein, operatives of the Tincan Port Command of the Agency on Tuesday 11th July intercepted 116.5kg consignment of Colorado, a strong strain of cannabis concealed in bags hidden in a heap of used vehicles parts on the floor of a container marked FCIU 8459700, bearing three units of used vehicles imported from Toronto, Canada.

"Also attempts to export various quantities of illicit substances through courier companies were equally thwarted by NDLEA operatives of the Directorate of Operation and General Investigations, DOGI in Lagos. While 336 grams of skunk stuffed inside computer hard drives going to Dubai, UAE, were seized at a courier firm, a suspect, Ibrahim Analu, 28, was arrested at Iddo motor park, Lagos while attempting to send 151,700 pills of opioids to Kaduna.

"While Abubakar Shuaibu was arrested on Thursday 13th July at Cappa, Mushin/Oshodi road with 86 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup weighing 8.6 litres in his Toyota bus marked FFA 241YB, two other suspects: Razak Ogunbo and Adeola Idowu were nabbed Tuesday 11th July at Ikorodu with 51 litres of skuchies.

 

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