Operatives of the
National Drug Law
Enforcement Agency
(NDLEA) have
intercepted a container that
arrived in Nigeria from
Islamabad in Pakistan with 11.3
kilograms of heroin valued at
N2.2 billion.
Daily Trust gathered that the
container, which was cleared by
men of the Nigeria Customs
Service at the Tin Can Island Port
in Lagos, was trailed to Okota by
operatives of the agency where
the driver was arrested and the
truck conveying the container
taken to Ikoyi office of the
agency.
The drugs were found stacked
in three moulding machines
industrially concealed in the 20
feet container that arrived in the
seaport.
Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of NDLEA, Ahmadu Giade,
who confirmed the incident,
said British anti-narcotics agents
alerted his agency about the
movement of the container that
led to placing his special
detectives on the trail of the
consignment until it arrived in
the seaport.
“The agency is worried over
frantic efforts by drug cartels in
the world to use the Nigerian
seaports to smuggle large
shipments of narcotics into the
country. This seizure of large
quantity of heroin made by the
agency was made possible in
collaboration with the British
authorities. The unadulterated
heroin weighing 113.49
kilograms was industrially
concealed in three moulding
machines imported from
Islamabad, Pakistan in a 20 feet
container.
“The drugs were in a total of
109 wraps stocked inside some
tunnels of the machines and
sealed industrially.”