Juliana Francis
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Tuesday 13th September, 2022, has intercepted a suspected trafficker identified as Chukwu Kingsley.
The Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, said that the suspect was arrested on his way to Rome, Italy on an Asky Airline flight.
Babafemi said: “A search of his luggage shows he had concealed among food condiments 11,460 tablets of tramadol 225mg with a gross weight of 5.7kg and 39 bottles of codeine syrup. The 49-year-old suspect is a known haulage agent who hails from Oru West Local Government Area of Imo State. Also at the Lagos airport, a freight agent, Lawal Adeyemi was arrested same day for attempting to export some sachets of lexotan among other non-controlled drugs to Liberia, while operatives equally seized 593.90 kilograms of khat leaf at the NAHCO import shed of the airport on Thursday 15th Sept. after a joint examination of the cargo by a combined team of security agencies.”