{"id":83491,"date":"2021-07-11T18:06:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T17:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=83491"},"modified":"2021-07-11T18:06:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T17:06:44","slug":"ndlea-intercepts-n6-5bn-heroin-at-lagos-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/ndlea-intercepts-n6-5bn-heroin-at-lagos-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"NDLEA Intercepts N6.5bn Heroin At Lagos Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a consignment of 26.150kgs of heroin with a street value of over N6.5bn at the SAHCO shed of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe illicit drug had arrived in Lagos in 25 parcels from South Africa through an Air peace Airline flight on 30 June 2021 and was detained for screening following reasonable suspicion of the content of the consignment.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, said on Sunday in Abuja that a follow-up operation was subsequently carried out the following day, 1st July when narcotics officers of the MMIA command trailed the driver and a clearing agent that were assigned to deliver the consignment to the house of a baron, Tony Chidi Onwurolu, at No. 132 Lateef Adegboyega Street, off Ago palace way by Grandmate bus stop Okota, Lagos.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cDuring the follow-up operation, Tony Chidi Onwurolu, who obviously mounted a counter-surveillance around his neighbourhood, fled his home before the arrival of the team of operatives who stormed his residence.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cThey were however able to search his home and recovered a number of documents to establish his true identity,\u201d Babafemi said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the development, the Chairman\/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig-Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), has directed that the fleeing drug baron be declared wanted immediately and his details submitted to Interpol for tracking across the world.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHe also directed the agency\u2019s Directorate of Assets and Financial Investigations as well as the Directorate of Intelligence to deploy their networks to fast track the arrest of Onwurolu.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nMarwa said in view of the volume of heroin brought into the country by the fleeing baron, the agency would deploy all available mechanisms, locally and internationally, to track him and bring him to face charges in the law court.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cThose who have been on the run for 10 years and some for five years, we have since tracked them and are now facing charges while cooling their heels behind bars.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cThe latest one won\u2019t be an exception, because he can only run but can\u2019t hide for too long before we get him,\u201d Marwa said.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a consignment of 26.150kgs of heroin with a street value of over N6.5bn at the SAHCO shed of the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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