At the Port Harcourt International Airport in Rivers State, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) confiscated hard drugs worth over N600 million.
Isaac Aloye, commander of the NDLEA’s Airport Command, announced this on Tuesday while briefing on the Command’s actions over the past four months in conjunction with June 26’s International Day Against Drug Abuse.
According to him, 37.6 kilogrammes of cocaine valued at around N680 million were seized during the period, and five individuals were apprehended.
Aloye added that several of the suspects were Brazilian returnees who concealed the drugs in lawnmower tyres, duvets, and cosmetics bottles in order to evade detection.
“Substantial parts of these drugs are even meant for local consumption and circulation within Rivers State here. You know the kind of massive impact it will have in the minds of our citizens,” he said.
“From our own arrest here, we didn’t just pick these people. Immediately they arrive, we try to debrief them. We try to find out who and who are waiting for them to pick them up from the airport.
“What happened in the last couple of months is that they are looking at this airport as an easy way out.”
He vowed that the Port Harcourt International Airport will no longer be an easy way out for drug traffickers no matter their antics.
This is even as he warned that his men have become more meticulous in their operations and are also conducting massive sensitisation in schools and churches to dissuade the youths from getting involved in drug trafficking and abuse.
