The National Drug Law
Enforcement Agency have arrested a graduate, Bolatito Solabi, 34, with drug
substances at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja.
Solabi, a single mother,
was arrested along with one Victor Chukwu, from whom 865 grammes of heroin was
seized.
It was gathered that Solabi,
a graduate of a polytechnic in Ogun State, was on board an Ethiopian Airline en
route to Addis Ababa when the anti-narcotic officials discovered the drugs,
ephedrine and methamphetamine in her two bags.
The woman, however, told
the agency that she was asked to deliver the bags to somebody in South Africa
and was not aware of their contents.
Commenting on the
arrest over the weekend, the NDLEA Commander at Nnamdi Azikiwe International
Airport, Lawan Hamisu told Punch: “The seizures by the command have shown that
South and East Africa routes are becoming more attractive to West African drug
trafficking organisations, with Malawi, Kenya and Tanzania featuring
prominently as sources of transiting heroin from Pakistan to Nigeria; with
Ethiopian Airline as most preferred by these criminals.”
The agency’s
spokesperson, Jonah Achema, also said that 26 kilogrammes of illicit drugs had
been seized at the airport in the last three months.
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