The recent foiling of an attempt by an international drug syndicate operating between Brazil Ethiopia and Nigeria to smuggle 845 wraps of cocaine weighing 18.72 kilograms into Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos by the National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has been eliciting reactions from key players.
The latest drug consignments which was uncovered in the toilet compartment of an Ethiopian airline aircraft in Lagos by officials of the anti narcotic agency would have fetched the barons a whopping four billion,four hundred and ninety-two million, eight hundred thousand naira but for the intelligence of the NDLEA officials.
According to the spokesperson of the agency, Femi Babafemi “The drug consignments worth Four Billion Four Hundred and Ninety-Two Million Eight Hundred Thousand Naira (N4,492,800,000) in street value were recovered from two lavatories of an Ethiopian Airlines aircraft during the post landing cleaning of the cabin…