cameroon/Nigeria:Nigerian Drug Trafficker Caught With Cocaine Hidden Inside Boxer-Shots

The seizure was made at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos-Nigeria. The Tramadol which was covered up among camera things was captured amid pre-shipment examination. The dispatch was bound for Congo Brazzaville in focal Africa. Another suspect was additionally gotten with 1.8kg of cocaine in his boxer shorts on his way from Dubai. Both suspects are being researched.

Nigerian Anti Drug Unit NDLEA administrator at the airplane terminal, Ahmed Garba gave the names of the suspects as Afube Izuchukwu Henry, 27 year-old vehicles parts merchant and Chijioke Chukwuemeka Raphael, 36 year-old assembly line laborer in Dubai. As indicated by Garba, "Chijioke who bargains in vehicles parts was captured for endeavoring to send out 21.99kgs of Tramadol covered up inside a DJ rack box implied for fare to Congo Brazzaville. Another suspect, Chijioke Chukwuemeka Raphael, a Dubai based assembly line laborer was captured with 1.8kgs of cocaine stuffed inside socks and covered in his boxer shorts amid the internal screening of travelers on an Emirate flight from Dubai".Afube who hails from Anambra and wedded with two kids said that he just followed up on his senior sibling's guideline. "I am a vehicle parts merchant. My sibling who lives in Congo requesting that I send a DJ Rack box to him. Sadly, when I took the crate to the airplane terminal, NDLEA found tramadol inside it amid pursuit and I was captured all the while" he expressed.

Chijioke said that he was offered four hundred and fifty thousand (N450,000) naira to carry the medication to Nigeria. In his words, "I am an assembly line laborer in Dubai forthe recent years. I am hitched with three youngsters yet I can't take great consideration of my family. I work from hand to mouth and I am burnt out on working without seeing the advantages of my work. I met a man seven months prior in Nigeria who brought me into medication trafficking. He guaranteed me a superior employment in Nigeria and offered me N450,000 naira. I acknowledged the offer since I needed to return home and begin a superior employment". He hails from Enugu State.

Administrator/Chief Executive of NDLE.A, Col. Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah resigned in his response guaranteed to embrace better procedures to disturb drug trafficking in the nation. "The NDLEA will keep on targeting criminal associations for standard seizure of medications, capture and indictment of medication aristocrats. We might keep on enhancing limit of the Agency to destroy drug trafficking associations through preparing, enhanced welfare, seizure of unlawful medication continues and managed joint effort with partners" Abdallah expressed.CONTINUE READING