NDLEA Nabs Engineer With Drug Concealed In Pressure Machines

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a suspected drug trafficker, Egwu Phillip Inya, who claims to be a building engineer, while attempting to take delivery of illicit consignments concealed in pressure machines imported from South Africa.

Egwu, 42, was arrested on Monday December 2, 2024 at Okeyson Motor Park in Enugu when he showed up to collect three units of pressure machines inside which were hidden parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, weighing 7.40 kilograms.

The consignments had arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos import shed on 29th November, 2024.

NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi in a statement on Sunday explained that “following credible intelligence, officers of the MMIA Strategic Command of the Agency had monitored the shipment pass through clearing processes up to a logistics company’s warehouse outside the airport where it was to be collected by the consignee.

“The importer however changed the point of collection to Enugu at the last minute. As a result, NDLEA operatives in a follow-up operation in Enugu arrested Egwu when he showed up to collect the consignments.”

Also, no fewer than 511,000 pills of tramadol were recovered from a Siena vehicle at Hildi, Askira Uba way in Adamawa State by NDLEA operatives on patrol along the road in the early hours of Friday, December 6.