The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a building engineer, Egwu Phillip Inya while allegedly attempting to take delivery of illicit consignments concealed in pressure machines imported from South Africa.
Director, Media & Advocacy of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Sunday.
Babafemi said the 42-year-old Egwu was arrested on Monday, December 2 at Okeyson motor park 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 NDLEA spokesman said the consignments had arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos import shed on November 29.
“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.
