NDLEA Arrests Two Afro-Euro Cartel Members, Intercept Dubai Bound Drugs.
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have arrested two members of a drug syndicate that operates between Nigeria, East Africa and Europe.
The two members of the cartel were arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos.
Spokesman of the NDLEA, Mr. Femi Babafemi, who stated these in a statement in Abuja, said the operatives of the agency at the Lagos airport on Monday, March 13, 2023, intercepted a member of the drug syndicate, Ejezie Vitus Ifeanyi, during screening of inward passengers on Ethiopian Airline flight from Malawi via Addis Ababa at the arrival hall.
Babafemi explained that when a search was conducted on him, it was discovered that one of his two bags has a false bottom concealment.
He further said; “During preliminary interview of the suspect, he confessed that a member of the syndicate was waiting at the airport carpark to pick him.
“An immediate follow up operation led to the arrest of Chukwu Franco Bright, who was waiting in a grey colour Mercedes Benz C180 coupe, marked EKY 973 GQ to receive the drug consignment”.
