19-year-old Cyprus-bound student nabbed at Lagos airport allegedly with hard drugs
Tongues were set wagging when a teenager, identified as 19-year-old Ben N. Deberechi, was nabbed by operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for allegedly attempting to export 7.2 kilograms of methamphetamine hidden in a sack of crayfish.
He was heading to Cyprus for undergraduate studies before his arrest at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos.
The consignment has a street value of several thousands of dollars in Europe.
The suspect was intercepted on July 12 this year while undergoing outward clearance for passengers on Turkish Airlines flight TK 0624.
Upon thorough search by NDLEA ground operatives, a whitish substance carefully hidden inside the crayfish sack was uncovered with subsequent field tests proving that the item was the prohibited substance methamphetamine.
The suspect reportedly told the NDLEA officers that he was a student on his way to Cyprus for studies.
”He is still a suspect as it is, but what would a teenager be doing with drug money?”, an airport staff asked.
Also, NDLEA officers at Tincan Port Command have intercepted 116.5kg consignment of Colorado, a strong strain of cannabis. hidden in bags that were concealed in a heap of used vehicle parts on the floor of a container marked FCIU 8459700, bearing three units of used vehicles imported from Toronto, Canada.
According to NDLEA, based on intelligence, its eagle-eyed officers requested for full examination of the container which arrived the TICT terminal of the port on June 14.
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”A joint examination with the Nigeria Customs, DSS and other stakeholders on Tuesday 11th July, however, led to the discovery of 233 parcels of the illicit substance stashed inside travelling bags on the floor of the container, covered with used vehicles spare parts” the agency said.
Meanwhile, NDLEA said that a Lekki, Lagos-based female lawyer, identified as Helen, who allegedly specializes in production and distribution of ‘skuchies’, said to be a mixture of cannabis, opioids and black currant has been arrested in a follow-up operation in Awka, Anambra state on the heels of an earlier seizure of 5kg cannabis and 12 bottles of prepared ‘skuchies’ in her apartment at Lekki.
