NDLEA arrests Europe-bound 19-year-old student with drugs

NDLEA arrests a 19-year-old student identified as Benjamin Nnamani Daberechi for the possession of illegal drugs, Methamphetamine.

In a statement posted on the Facebook page of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Femi Babafemi, the Director of Media and Advocacy, the drugs were cleverly concealed within a sack of crayfish.

According to the statement, Daberechi, who was heading to Europe for his undergraduate studies, made an attempt to export approximately 7.2 kilograms of methamphetamine, utilizing the crayfish sack as a hiding place.

The statement partly read, “The teenage suspect was intercepted on Wednesday 12th July, during an outward clearance of passengers on Turkish Airlines flight TK 0624.

“While being interviewed by operatives, Daberechi claimed he was a student on his way to Cyprus for studies, but upon a thorough search of his luggage, he was found possessing 7.2kg of whitish substance neatly concealed inside a sack of crayfish. A field test of the substance however proved it is Methamphetamine.”