Woman with heroin hidden in bag arrested in Lagos

Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said on Thursday it has intercepted a woman and a bag with 195 grammes of heroin hidden inside it at the Lagos airport.

The seizure was made on the last day of the year at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos during search of luggage to Monrovia, Liberia on an Arik flight.


“Officials have arrested the consignor, a 34-year old housewife, Nsofor Ngozi Anderlin for attempting to export the drug to her husband in Liberia,” said Mitchell Ofoyeju, NDLEA Head of Public Affairs.
Ofoyeju’s statement quoted the suspect, a mother of five, as saying that the bag was sent to her by her husband.

“My husband called me from Liberia where he lives that somebody will give me a bag. He told me to buy female artificial hair in the bag and send it to him. I bought the hair attachment as instructed by my husband. This is not my first time of sending goods to my husband. Unfortunately, officers at the Airport found heroin inside the bag during search,” Ngozi was quoted as saying.

The bag containing 195 grammes of heroin

how the drug was hidden at the bottom of the bag

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