The National Drug and Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA) has arrested two Pakistani businessmen and two Nigeriens for drug trafficking.

The agency in statement signed by the Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, revealed that the Pakistani men, Asif Muhammed and Hussain Naveed, were arrested with eight kilograms of cocaine while attempting to board a plane at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos.

The Nigeriens on the other hand, Bukar Haruna and his son Saka Haruna, were arrested along the Malumfashi-Zaria road in Katsina State for possessing 20.5 kilograms of cannanbis and 10 grams of exon-5 while heading to Niger Republic.

Meanwhile, two businessmen who have been on the run for months over their involvement in drug trafficking have been arrested by anti-narcotic officers assigned to track them. 

Nnebo Christopher who has been wanted for his role in the importation of 40 cartons containing 346,800 pills of co-codamol, a brand of paracetamol with codeine seized at the cargo wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport local airport since March 2022, was arrested on Thursday 3rd of November.

In the same vein, operatives on the trail of an automobile parts dealer, Omeje Oliver (a.k.a David Mark) since April eventually arrested him on Monday 31st of October in Enugu where he fled to after abandoning his business at Aspanda, Trade Fair Complex Lagos. 

He was wanted in connection with the seizure of 600 grams of heroin concealed inside soles of lady’s footwears going to Liberia on April 16.