Nigeria’s Anti-narcotic Agency, the National drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA has arrested a human trafficker, Mathew Bassey who planted hard drugs in the luggage of an orphan, Ms. Peter Gift Eno with the intention to export them to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The Agency’s spokesperson Mr. Femi Babafemi in a press statement said, the arrests was made at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos, South West Nigeria.
The trafficker, Bassey, 29, from Oron LGA, Akwa Ibom state was arrested on Wednesday 6th July following the interception of Eno at the departure hall of the Lagos airport.
The statement said, when Enos luggage was searched, 50 parcels of cannabis (2.80kg) concealed in food items were discovered while there were discrepancies between the age she declared and the date of birth on her international passport.
“Investigations showed that the victim who hails from the same Oron LGA of Akwa Ibom State like Bassey, recently lost her mother and as a result made it easy for Bassey to recruit her with the promise of securing her a job in Dubai, UAE.”
How human trafficker recruited orphan to export drug to Dubai
. As NDLEA intercepts father of one travelling by road to Algeria, excretes 47 wraps of cocaine pic.twitter.com/QUMLpqyYON
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In a related development, the desperate bid by a drug trafficker, Aloysius Ajuruchukwu Onyekwe (a.k.a) Kelvin to travel by road to Algeria through Sokoto state Northern Nigeria with ingested 47 wraps of cocaine in his stomach has been frustrated by NDLEA operatives who intercepted him in Ibadan, Oyo state following intelligence shared by the Department of State Security, DSS.
Also in Oyo state South West Nigeria, “about 1,900 tablets of Tramadol 225mg were seized from a drug dealer, Mustapha Ijabula, 22, who was arrested in a Yola, Adamawa-bound commercial vehicle stopped for routine search along Lagos-Ibadan expressway.”
In Akwa Ibom state, Southern Nigeria, “a trans-border trafficker, Fonkou Dassi, 31, was on Friday 8th July arrested with 6,000 tablets of Tramadol 225mg weighing 3kg by officers of Marine Unit of the Agency when a commercial boat he boarded was intercepted and searched on his way to Cameroon. The suspect concealed the recovered drugs inside indomie noodles cartoon.”
In Edo state, “a notorious drug dealer Beauty Dauda, 27, has been arrested with various quantities of Meth, heroin, cannabis and crack cocaine in a densely populated slum along Lagos bypass, Benin City.”
Reacting on the seizures, the Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) commended the officers and men of the MMIA, Oyo, Akwa Ibom and Edo commands of the Agency for staying vigilant and proactive in their areas of responsibility.
He charged them and their colleagues across the country not to rest on their oars.
