Seven arrested as NDLEA intercepts illicit drugs concealed in deep freezer and cooking gas cylinders

Seven arrested as NDLEA intercepts illicit drugs concealed in deep freezers and cooking gas cylinders.

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a consignment of 11.90 kilograms of heroin and 500grams of skunk concealed in deep freezers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

The deep freezers were part of a cargo that arrived from South Africa on Tuesday, March 7, onboard Ethiopian airline via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, March 12, said the Agency’s sniffer dogs were deployed to locate where the illicit drugs were hidden in the cargo and in no time, they identified the cartons packed in the deep freezers.

“A total of four suspects that played active roles in the movement of the drugs and a truck driver have been arrested so far in connection with the seizure. They include: Dairo Quam; Oluwaseun Ogunmene; Adeleke Abdulrasaq; Bamidele Adewale and Oluwafemi Ogunmeru,” he said.