The Senate was also intimated of the fact that the nation’s airports lacked security surveillance that would help checkmate the activities of drug cartel, which specialises in hiding hard drugs in travellers’ bags. Erewa said: “We are talking about scanners and customs; the thing is, are scanners at our airports even working? “We have to thank NDLEA for going deep into this matter working with the father of Zainab to ensure this is done. We’ve only 14 sniffer dogs in Lagos —NDLEAOn his part, representative of the Chairman of NDLEA, Mr. Mustapha Abdallah, told the committee that their German-trained sniffer dogs were few in number. Gaya also directed officials of FAAN to upgrade the scanners in the nation’s airports to nip in the bud issues of hard drugs.

Source: Ethiopian News May 23, 2019 04:18 UTC