Ejiofor Chiwuzie, a car parts salesman, was detained by agents of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for attempting to export loads of heroin and loud, a type of cannabis, from Lagos.

The arrest was made public in a statement made on Sunday in Abuja by Mr. Femi Babafemi, the Director of Media and Advocacy at the NDLEA.

According to Babafemi, the shipments that were detained at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja, Lagos, were hidden through the airport’s export shed by LED rechargeable lamps and sofa metal legs.

According to him, Ejiofor was taken into custody on Tuesday, September 24, at the Trade Fair complex in the Ojo neighbourhood of Lagos, where he is a vendor of car components.

This, he claimed, came after his shipment of electronics, automobile components, rechargeable bulbs, metal couch legs, and cargo bound for Liberia was seized at the Lagos airport’s export shed.

“Four blocks of loud, totalling 1.20 kg, and 37 packets of heroin, each weighing 1.10 kg, were hidden under the LED lamps and sofa legs.

He said that “a prompt follow-up operation resulted in the arrest of two goods agents and Ejiofor, who sent the consignment.”

Similarly, drug trafficking networks were thwarted by the NDLEA when they attempted to export bundles of tramadol pills, co-codamol tablets, pentazocine injection, dihydrocodeine, and promethazine tabs via certain courier services.

According to Babafemi, the shipments were to be sent to the UK, US, Canada, Australia, Thailand, and Oman.

He went on to say that NDLEA operatives assigned to the logistics businesses’ Directorate of Operation and General Investigation (DOGI) stopped the attempted drug trafficking operations.

“While 2.3 kg of loud was being sent to Thailand in a carton, 749 grammes of tramadol were being transported to Oman in the soles of locally manufactured shoes, and 60 ampoules of injectable pentazocine were being sent to the US.

Approximately two hundred co-codamol pills were intended for Australia, and seven hundred tablets containing promethazine, tramadol, and dihydrocodeine, along with twenty ampoules of injectable pentazocine hidden in shoe bottoms, were destined for the United Kingdom.

“58 ampoules of pentazocine injection, concealed in female clothing, were headed to Canada.” He stated that all of the seizures that took place in the courier houses happened in Lagos on Monday, September 23, and Tuesday, September 24.