The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency says its operatives intercepted consignments of cocaine concealed in a local mortar and the false bottom of a backpack meant for shipment to China and Italy through a Lagos logistics company.
This is just as the agency said it arrested four suspects in multiple operations across the country.
The agency spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, disclosed in a statement on Sunday that officers of its Directorate of Operations and General Investigations seized the cocaine on Thursday.
Babafemi noted that 250 grammes of cocaine were factory-fitted into the base of a local mortar packaged for export to China, while another 500 grammes were hidden in the false bottom of a backpack destined for Italy.
He stated that operatives in Rivers State arrested a 38-year-old suspected drug dealer, Ugo Gift Okonkwo, at Eagle Island, Port Harcourt, following intelligence reports.
“The suspect was nabbed with various quantities of cannabis,
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