Drug enforcement agents broke up a criminal group that paid pilgrims to smuggle cocaine during religious trips to Saudi Arabia. Officers arrested three gang leaders after catching two travelers at Kano airport with drugs hidden inside their bodies. Ibrahim Umar Mustapha and Muhammad Siraj Shifado each swallowed 45 cocaine packets before their planned flight. The travelers expelled 90 drug pellets weighing over one kilogram during medical observation. Police quickly tracked down the crime bosses who organized the smuggling operation.
Agents also caught businessman Chinedu Leonard Okigbo at the same airport heading to Iran with 65 cocaine packets inside his stomach. The 60-year-old man underwent body scanning that revealed the hidden drugs weighing 1.41 kilograms. Officers seized massive amounts of dangerous medicines worth over nine billion naira at Port Harcourt ports. Teams found 825,200 bottles of codeine syrup and more than five million opioid pills during container searches. The street value of recovered drugs reached billions of naira across multiple operations.
Police stopped two men carrying 900,000 dollars in fake cash along Kano-Maiduguri road during routine patrol work. Officers also recovered 275 kilograms of cannabis from a Toyota vehicle parked near Yola. Female drug dealer Alhaja Mutiat Abdul-Fatai got arrested at Ilorin market with various illegal medicines. Agency chief Mohamed Buba Marwa praised all teams for their successful drug seizures across different states. The operations targeted both drug suppliers and users throughout the country.
Agents also caught businessman Chinedu Leonard Okigbo at the same airport heading to Iran with 65 cocaine packets inside his stomach. The 60-year-old man underwent body scanning that revealed the hidden drugs weighing 1.41 kilograms. Officers seized massive amounts of dangerous medicines worth over nine billion naira at Port Harcourt ports. Teams found 825,200 bottles of codeine syrup and more than five million opioid pills during container searches. The street value of recovered drugs reached billions of naira across multiple operations.
Police stopped two men carrying 900,000 dollars in fake cash along Kano-Maiduguri road during routine patrol work. Officers also recovered 275 kilograms of cannabis from a Toyota vehicle parked near Yola. Female drug dealer Alhaja Mutiat Abdul-Fatai got arrested at Ilorin market with various illegal medicines. Agency chief Mohamed Buba Marwa praised all teams for their successful drug seizures across different states. The operations targeted both drug suppliers and users throughout the country.
