THE Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have frustrated attempts by drug syndicates to export large consignments of cocaine, methamphetamine and opioids through two Nigerian Airports respectively.
The NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi said in a statement, yesterday, in Abuja, said that the drugs were to be exported through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, (MMIA), Ikeja Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, (NAIA), Abuja.
Babafemi said that the consignments which were going to the UK, Italy, Turkey and Qatar were stopped in a series of intelligence led operations and the illicit drugs were recovered with the masterminds arrested.
He said that a total of 13 parcels of cocaine weighing 4.40kg going to the UK via Frankfurt on a Lufthansa Airlines flight were intercepted by NDLEA officers.
This, he said, was at the export shed of the Lagos airport, while a businessman linked to the consignment was tracked and arrested.
