Nigerians were recently stunned when some neatly packed and appetising
roasted chickens, which had arrived the country from Brazil, aboard a
Turkish Airline flight from Sao Paulo, were discovered to contain hard
drugs. The drugs were concealed in the roasted chickens, with the
intention to fool security officials. It was a new way drug traffickers
devised to pull the wool on the eyes of security personnel at the
airport and bring in hard drugs.
The
kingpin of the drugs syndicate, Mr. Vincent Chegini Chinweuwa, had
revealed that it took three days to package the roasted chickens for
onward transmission to Nigeria, adding: “I was confident that the drug
will not be detected. I’m surprised I’ve been caught.” A conservative
estimate of the street value of the drugs, which was impounded, was put
at about N24 million.
Airport Commandant of the National Drug Law
Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), at the Murtala Muhammed International
Airport (MMIA), Lagos, Mr. Hamza Umar, had said of this: “We discovered
2.655kg of cocaine inside roasted chickens. It is a remarkable seizure
because no one would have imagined cocaine worth several millions inside
roasted chickens.”
Investigation revealed that drug traffickers
have, indeed, devised various new ways to bring in their merchant of
death into the country. Sometimes, they are caught. Some other times,
they succeed in beating the security dragnet at the airports and
borders.
Speaking on this, Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA,
Ahmadu Giade, said: “Drug barons are becoming more and more
sophisticated in drug concealment, as recent discoveries show. The
essence of drug concealment is to avoid detection and seizure. In order
to prevent huge financial losses, arrests and prosecution, drug barons
go the extra mile in hiding their drugs
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