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.
Todaysgist 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.”
