Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have nabbed a suspected drug dealer, Stephen Afam Ikeanyionwu, in a church somewhere in Ojodu, Ikeja area of Lagos State.
Ikeanyionwu was declared wanted for attempting to export 69.65kg of cocaine, heroin, and cannabis to the United Kingdom through the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA).
Operatives of the Agency had traced the wanted drug dealer, on Sunday 15th August 2021 to a church at Mike Ajari Street, Ojodu Berger, where they arrested him soon after he stepped out of the church service.
His arrest followed the interception of a consignment of illicit drugs weighing 69.65kg going to the UK through the Lagos airport on Thursday, 12th August 2021.
According to Director, Media, and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi in a statement, the illegal baggage had been sent to the airport for export through a freight forwarding company, which in turn gave a driver to deliver at the NAHCO export shed.
Following the arrest of the driver, follow-up operations and investigations later revealed the true identity of the actual owner of the consignment, Stephen Afam Ikeanyionwu, who was arrested three days later in a sting operation.
Also at the Lagos airport, NDLEA operatives arrested an Italy-bound passenger, Abibu Miminu during the outward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airways flight to Italy via Addis-Ababa for ingesting illicit drugs.
While under observation at the agency’s facility between Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th August 2021, the trafficker excreted 68 wraps of heroin in three excretions, all weighing 800grams.
In the same vein, narcotic officers of the Directorate of Operation and General Investigation have intercepted at two courier companies in Lagos 840grams of Methamphetamine going to Australia and concealed in bolts; 340grams of Meth hidden in locally made footwears and also going to Australia; 1kilogram of cocaine coming from Ghana with the UK as destination and concealed in four local guitars.
Also seized from one of the courier firms is another 480grams of Meth concealed in footwear going to Australia.
