NDLEA arrests 13 suspected drug traffickers
By Alex Olise
THIRTEEN suspected drug traffickers have been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
Their arrest took place at the Murtala Mohamed Airport, Lagos between September and October, 2004.
One of the suspects was arrested on September 10 on arrival from Karachi on Kenya Airways from Nairobi.
The suspect had just been released from Karachi Prison, Pakistan where he was jailed for a drug-related offence.
Another suspect was arrested on September 6, 2004, when he arrived on board Lufthansa Airlines from Munich. He had concealed 53 wraps of heroine in a chocolate pack inside his hand luggage and ingested the same substance with a total weight of 1.210 killogrammes.
A 62-year-old suspect, who claimed to be an indigene of Ikorodu town in Lagos State, was arrested on October 16 while travelling to London. He was found to have ingested 1.250 killogrames of Cocaine and claimed the illicit drug belonged to someone who resides at Alapere in the Ketu area of Lagos.
But he declined to give the full address of the baron.
The zonal commander of NAFDAC at the airport Alhaji Abdullahi Danburam, who paraded the suspects yesterday, said the agency had devised a new strategy to track drug couriers.
While warning the public, he noted that barons lured suspected victims into the trade in places like restaurants and clubs where they usually promised them huge sums of money and other big things.
According to him, all the suspects will be prosecuted in line with the Act establishing NDLEA which prescribes 25 years' imprisonment for drug trafficking.
He noted that the Judiciary had been very helpful in the ongoing war against drug trafficking.
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