60 Nigerians May Lose Resident Permits For Drug Trafficking.

60 Nigerians may lose resident permits for drug trafficking

HARD measures have been lined up for drug law offenders, according to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

In a statement yesterday in Lagos, the NDLEA's Public Relations Officer, Ofoyeju Mitchell, disclosed that resident permits of 60 Nigerians living abroad may be revoked for their attempts to smuggle 99.03 kilograms of hard drugs out of Nigeria.

According to Mitchell, nine United Kingdom and four United States visas granted to some suspected drug traffickers, who were caught at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos might be cancelled by the authorities.

He said 80.856 kilograms of cocaine, and 18.174 kilograms of cannabis, were found on the suspects when they were arrested.

The NELEA chairman, Ahmadu Giade, who also spoke at the agency's headquarters in Ikoyi, Lagos said: "We will stop at nothing to assert the integrity of the agency through professional counter narcotics practice. I am glad that our healthy collaboration with stakeholders is yielding positive results."

The NDLEA boss added that besides the prosecution of suspects, "we are exploring legal options that will lead to the repudiation of their resident permits and visas where necessary."

According to him, the suspects' assets and bank accounts had also been investigated with a view to forfeiting their unmerited wealth.

"We will continue to track them down so that their ill-motivated action will not smear the good image of our country. At present, we are investigating other cases and if found culpable the same measures will be applied against them."

Giade remarked that Spain seemed to be the new attraction of drug traffickers, 40 out of the 60 suspects were heading for that country, 17 to Italy, two to Germany.

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