How NDLEA nabbed Indian lady who hid heroin parcels in chocolate wraps

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a 42-year-old Indian lady, Ms. Neetu Neetu, at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano. Spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, said this on Sunday in a statement in Abuja, said Neetu was arrested with 72 parcels of heroin factory sealed in wafer […]

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a 42-year-old Indian lady, Ms. Neetu Neetu, at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano.

Spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, said this on Sunday in a statement in Abuja, said Neetu was arrested with 72 parcels of heroin factory sealed in wafer wraps and packaged as chocolates.

He said that the class A drug consignment weighing a total of 11kgs was recovered from Neetu’s luggage after a thorough search, following processed credible intelligence, during an inward clearance of Qatar Airways flight QR1431 from Bangkok, Thailand via Vietnam and Doha at the arrival hall of the Kano airport on Friday, 14th March, 2025.

“The arrest of Neetu signifies a growing attempt by drug trafficking organisations to hire white ladies and foreign nationals to move illicit drugs through the Nigerian borders, a bid that vigilant NDLEA operatives have consistently frustrated with the aid of modern technological tools and proactive intelligence, says Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) in his immediate reaction to Neetu’s arrest,” Babafemi said.

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In another operation in Kano, NDLEA officers on Thursday, 20th March, arrested a 45-year-old suspect, Michael Ogundele, with a 50-litre steel gas cylinder at Gadar Tamburawa, along Zaria- Kano road.

Based on credible intelligence, welding tools were later used to cut the giant cylinder after which 50,000 pills of tramadol 225mg concealed in it were extracted.

While Sunday Ogar, 40, was nabbed at Gunduwawa area of Kano on Wednesday, 19th March, with 27kgs skunk, a strain of cannabis, a female suspect, Khadijah Abdullahi, 40, was arrested with 424 bottles of codeine-based syrup at Lungun Bulala Yalwa area of the state on Tuesday 18th March.

In Lagos State, the duo of Olumuyiwa Kolawole and Samod Adisa were nabbed with 67.5kgs skunk in Mushin just as 100.8kgs of same psychoactive substance was recovered from the store of two fleeing suspects in Anifowoshe area of Mushin while Isah Idris was arrested in Apapa with 4.5kgs skunk; 600grams of tramadol 225mg and 30litres of codeine syrup on Tuesday 18th March.

Another suspect, Yahaya Mohamed, was arrested same day in Ikotun area of the state with different quantities of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.