Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted an Indian lady, Ms. Neetu Neetu, 42, with 11kg (72 parcels) of heroin sealed in wafer wraps and packaged as chocolates at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano.
The class A drug consignment was recovered from Neetu’s luggage after a thorough search, following processed credible intelligence, during an inward clearance of Qatar Airways flight QR1431 from Bangkok, Thailand via Vietnam and Doha at the arrival hall of the Kano airport on Friday, March, 14, 2025.
This was disclosed in a statement made available to Thelensng by the Director, Media & Advocacy of NDLEA, Mr. Femi Babafemi on Sunday.
“The arrest of Neetu signifies a growing attempt by drug trafficking organisations to hire white ladies and foreign nationals to move illicit drugs through the Nigerian borders, a bid that vigilant NDLEA operatives have consistently frustrated with the aid of modern technological tools and proactive intelligence, says Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) in his immediate reaction to Neetu’s arrest,” Babafemi noted.
In another interdiction operation in Kano, NDLEA officers on Thursday, March 20, arrested a suspect, Michael Ogundele, 45, with a 50-litre steel gas cylinder at Gadar Tamburawa, along Zaria- Kano road.
The spokeperson revealed that based on credible intelligence, welding tools were later used to cut the giant cylinder after which 50,000 pills of tramadol 225mg concealed in it were extracted.
Similarly, Sunday Ogar, 40, was nabbed at Gunduwawa area of Kano on Wednesday, March 19, with 27kg skunk, a strain of cannabis, while a female suspect Khadijah Abdullahi, 40, was apprehended with 424 bottles of codeine-based syrup at Lungun Bulala Yalwa area of the state on Tuesday, March 18.
Elsewhere (Lagos), the duo of Olumuyiwa Kolawole and Samod Adisa were nabbed with 67.5kg skunk in Mushin just as 100.8kg of same psychoactive substance was recovered from the store of two fleeing suspects in Anifowoshe area of Mushin.
The agency’s operatives on Tuesday, March 18, also arrested Isah Idris in Apapa area of Lagos with 4.5kg skunk; 600grams of tramadol; 225mg and 30 litres of codeine syrup, while another suspect, Yahaya Mohamed, was nabbed same day in Ikotun area of the state with different quantities of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.
However, the Commands and formations of the agency across the country continued to intensify their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) social advocacy sensitisation engagements in schools, markets, motor parts, work places and worship centres in the past week.
The activities include WADA sensitisation lecture to students and staff of Chrisland School, Ikeja, Lagos; Hakimi Secondary School, Mokwa, Niger State; Marist Comprehensive College, Nteje, Anambra State; Ikole City College, Ikole Ekiti, Ekiti State; Government Day Secondary School, Sunane, Sokoto State; and Government Day Secondary School, Jada, Adamawa State, among others.
Reacting to the arrests and seizures, the Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa commended the officers and men of MAKIA, Lagos, and Kano Commands of the Agency.
Marwa expressed satisfaction with the balance in drug supply and demand reduction efforts of all the formations nationwide, even as he charged them not to relent.
