The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency said it had arrested a Saudi Arabia-bound alleged drug trafficker, Lawal Oyenuga, who concealed 400 grams of cocaine in a pair of palm sandals.
The anti-narcotics agency said it also arrested a wanted notorious kingpin, Wasiu Gbolahan, who allegedly recruited mules for a cocaine cartel in Lagos, following the arrest of Oyenuga.
According to the agency, the arrest of the 56-year-old Oyenuga was made when officers of the NDLEA attached to the screening point of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, on Thursday, November 24, intercepted him with a pair of black palm sandals packed in the luggage he was going with to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, via Addis Ababa on an Ethiopian Airways flight.
This happened barely a week after a 56-year-old widow and mother of four, Mrs. Ajisegiri Sidika, was arrested at the airport over her attempt to traffic 400 grams of cocaine concealed in her footwear to Makkah, Saudi Arabia, on board a Qatar Airways flight, the agency said.
This is contained in a statement signed by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday.
The statement read, “Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the weekend disrupted the activities of a major cocaine syndicate in Lagos following the arrest of a 56-year-old trafficker, Lawal Lateef Oyenuga who was on a mission to deliver 400grams of the class A drug concealed in a pair of palm sandals in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and the swift follow up arrest of a wanted notorious kingpin, Wasiu Sanni Gbolahan popularly known as Teacher, who recruits mules for the cartel.
“(The) NDLEA operatives attached to the screening point of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos had on Thursday 24th November intercepted Lawal Lateef Oyenuga with a pair of black palm sandals packed in the luggage he was going with to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia via Addis Ababa on an Ethiopian Airways flight
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