Ndlea intercepts cocaine hidden in a suitcase (video)

Operation of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (Ndlea), has intercepted large shipping cocaine hidden in the walls of several suitcases.

Director of Media and Advocacy Ndlea, Femi Babafemi, who revealed this in a post on X on Sunday together with a video of drugs that were confiscated, condemned the extent of the smuggling of the drugs used to hide narcotics, which attached to the precision of surgical surgery into the fence layer in the preferred way.

In a statement that accompanied the video, Babafemi said it would require a lot of efforts for smuggling to hide cocaine in a suitcase with factory installation precision.

“Narco-trend update: shouting suitcase walls, in the precision of factory installation, with cocaine, must have taken many efforts and resources but in the end #ndlea_nigeria officers still reveal everything as stated in these videos that capture the latest seizures by #ndlea,” he wrote.

Babafemi said the operators from the agency’s special operating unit arrested two brothers, John Abugu and Kenneth Abugu, at Lagos International Airport with a cocaine weighing 5 kilograms hidden on their suitcase walls while trying to take flights to India.

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“The two siblings were arrested at Lagos Airport on April 3, 2025, after proactive processing of credible intelligence.

“They claim that they are traveling to India for medical treatment but when their suitcases are sought thoroughly by Ndlea officers, vaginal discharge powder is then confirmed as cocaine found on the walls of their bags,” said.

“In the same development, Ndlea officers from the Strategic Command of the Lagos International Airport on the same day intercepted a 20-year-old Ghana-English man, Parker Darren Hazekia Osei with 36 hard parcels, a strong type of cannabis weighing 19.40kg which was packaged in a giant travel bag.

“He claimed in his statement that he lived with his parents in England but left London about a week ago to Bangkok where he took the delivery of illegal drugs to be delivered in Nigeria,” added the agency spokesman.

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