The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a drug trafficking attempt to smuggle narcotics hidden in 20 sets of religious books to Saudi Arabia.
The Agency’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi revealed this in a statement posted on NDLEA’s official X page.
Babafemi explained that operatives from the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation conducted a search at a courier company in Lagos on Tuesday. While combing through export cargos going to Saudi Arabia, they uncovered cocaine concealed in the pages of the religious books at the logistics firm.
According to the statement, the cocaine consignment consisted of 20 parcels weighing 500 grams in total.
On Tuesday, NDLEA officers seized five parcels of Loud at another courier company. They found the strong strain of cannabis, weighing 2.8 kilograms, hidden in a carton from the United States.
Additionally, the Agency apprehended a 22-year-old supplier of illicit substances to bandits identified as Muhammad Mohammed in Kano. The suspect was caught on his way to Katsina with 277 ampoules of pentazocine injection attached to his thigh and private part with Sellotape.
Similarly, the agency arrested another 43-year-old suspect identified as Mohammed Abdulrahman Abdulaziz in Kano with 68 blocks of skunk, a 30kg strain of cannabis.
Further, the statement revealed that operatives raided two cannabis farms in Egbeta forest, Ovia NorthEast LGA of Edo state. During the raid, the officers destroyed over 3700 kilograms of the psychoactive plant and recovered 136.5kg of processed cannabis.
The Agency noted that the War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) and sensitization programs also continued in other states in the past week. They included WADA sensitization lectures delivered to students and staff, traders and drivers in different parts of the country.
