By Valentine Amanze, Online Editor
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has made huge seizure of hard drugs in a palace of a popular monarch in Anambra State.
Though it did not disclose the name of the monarch, the agency said that it recovered 58.5 grammes of cocaine and 13.9 grammes of heroin from the palace of the traditional ruler.
The agency also said that there were efforts to unravel how the illicit drugs were hidden in his palace.
But, the agency’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Monday, said that palace guards were helping to trace the drug dealer.
Besides, Babafemi said that a suspected drug trafficker, Hassan Bishi Taiwo, was arrested at the weekend at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Lagos with three parcels of cocaine concealed in a false bottom of his suitcase.
Taiwo, who was arrested upon arrival onboard Ethiopian Airlines on Friday, has been trafficking drugs on Middle East routes for some time, Babafemi said.
“Also, narcotics officers attached to a courier company in Lagos intercepted 500 grammes of unaccompanied cocaine going to the United Arab Emirates concealed in the walls of cartons containing clothes. The operatives also intercepted in another courier firm 1kg of cannabis hidden in cream bottles going to the UAE while 500g of ketamine hidden in artefacts going to the US was also recovered from the same company in Lagos. Another 480grammes of unaccompanied methamphetamine going to China was recovered from the same courier company,” Babafemi said.
