(NDLEA) on discovered a letter laden with heroin in Lagos.
The letter was sent from Bengaluru, India, on Express Mail Service (EMS), addressed to one Mr Yunusa Amusan, 33, in Mushin, Lagos.
Upon interception by the NDLEA, about four hundred and eighty (480) grammes of powdery substance that tested positive for Heroin was found inside the letter.
The thin parcels of heroin were carefully hidden in the letter in a manner that makes it difficult to detect.
This is the first case of heroin letter discovered by the anti-narcotic agency this year.
Col. Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah, (rtd), Chairman and Chief Executive of the NDLEA, said that the arrest was recorded following the diversification of the Agency’s operations.
“The operations of the Agency have been diversified to cover mail services.
Drug control is an intelligence-led operation and the NDLEA under my dispensation will spread its tentacles to all possible areas of narcotic smuggling. We will not relent in taking deliberate and sustained efforts towards preventing drug trafficking under any guise in the country be it by air, land and water” Abdallah stated.
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