The Agency in Lagos made the call following the discovery of new tricks adopted by drug traffickers.
Giade said active participation by regional organisations would boost the campaign to eradicate illicit drugs from African societies.
According to Giade, the intervention of regional bodies has become imperative for a healthy and drug free life.
“Heroin is usually smuggled from Pakistan, Iran and India but things are changing with the seizure of heroin coming from Tanzania.
The first set of traffickers will smuggle heroin from Pakistan to Tanzania, while another set will take it from Tanzania to Nigeria. This is a new plan to evade arrest but we shall now beam our searchlight on African flights.
“The role of credible stakeholders such as regional organisations must be maximised. This is needed to boost drug control operations in the world particularly in Africa.
“Regional organisations can assist in developing legal frameworks and provide funding for drug control programmes. This way drug control capacity will be greatly enhanced on the continent,” Giade said.
Giade said that drug couriers now ingest liquid cocaine poured into male condoms, pointing out that these tricks were uncovered at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.
He said that four suspected drug traffickers were arrested, while two of the suspects, who were between 27 years and 28 years claimed to be auto and electrical parts dealers’ respectively in Lagos.
“Two of the suspects were found to have ingested liquid cocaine poured into male condoms to avoid detection. In their confessional statements, they thought that scanning machine will not detect liquid cocaine.
“Two suspects were detected during screening of passengers on Kenyan Airways, while other two arrived from Venezuela by using Emergency Travel Certificate aboard South African Airline flight,” Giade noted.
He said one of the suspects, a 43-year-old trader excreted 70 wraps of oily cocaine, weighing 2kg, while another 32-year-old teacher swallowed 54 wraps of the oily substance weighing 1.35kg. (
NDLEA arrests 2 for ingesting liquid cocaine sealed in condoms
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested four suspected drug traffickers, including two men who ingested 124 wraps of liquid cocaine sealed in condoms.
Mitchell Ofoyeju, NDLEA spokesperson, said in Lagos that the liquid cocaine, weighing 3.3kg, was poured into male condoms before it was ingested by the suspects.
According to the statement, the two suspects arrived at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos from Venezuela, using emergency travel certificates.
The statement added that the two suspects excreted 70 and 54 wraps of the oily cocaine.
``The 43-year-old who claimed to reside in Venezuela for 10 years said that the Venezuelan who gave him the drug, told him that it will be difficult for the scanning machine to detect ingested liquid cocaine and promised him a reward of $6,000 (about N930,000).
``The 32-year-old suspect who also claimed to be teaching English at a Language School in Venezuela, said that he was promised a reward of N 4 million,’’ the NDLEA Commander at the airport ,, Hamza Umar, was quoted in the statement, as saying.
The statement also disclosed that two other suspects were arrested at the airport for allegedly importing unspecified quantity of heroin into the country from Tanzania.
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