August 27, (THEWILL) – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have arrested a South African man for attempting to export methamphetamine, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja. The 29-year-old South African, Erasmus Jean Pierre, concealed 2.6kg of methamphetamine in his luggage, which was headed to the Middle East, on Wednesday. In a statement issued on Sunday, by its Spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, it said its operatives intercepted Pierre during the outward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 404, from Abuja to the Middle East via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. “In Adamawa state, NDLEA operatives on Tuesday, 22nd August, recovered 60,000 pills of tramadol from a suspect, Ibrahim Abba, 25, who was travelling in a commercial Toyota Starlet car from Kalaa village to Mubi. Equally, in Abuja the Federal Capital Territory, operatives intercepted two consignments of skunk with a gross weight of 1,242.1 kilograms.

Source: Ethiopian News August 27, 2023 13:32 UTC