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Syndicates are increasingly hiring white females and foreign nationals to move drugs via Nigerian borders. Thankfully and according to the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) vigilant NDLEA operatives have consistently frustrated this with the aid of modern technological tools and proactive intelligence.
On Friday 14 March, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) intercepted a 42-year-old Indian lady, Ms. Neetu Neetu at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano, with 72 parcels of heroin factory sealed in wafer wraps and packaged as chocolates.
The class “A” drug consignment weighing a total of 11 kilograms was recovered from her luggage after a search, following processed credible intelligence, during inward clearance of a Qatar Airways flight from Bangkok, Thailand via Vietnam and Doha.