Campbell, an ex-convict with prior drug trafficking and robbery convictions in the United Kingdom, was nabbed on Friday after arriving in Nigeria from Thailand via Doha on a Qatar Airways flight.
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 22-year-old British national, Campbell Kaizra Kofi Johannes Slifer, with a large drug consignment at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos.
Campbell, an ex-convict with prior drug trafficking and robbery convictions in the United Kingdom, was nabbed on Friday after arriving in Nigeria from Thailand via Doha on a Qatar Airways flight.
He was found in possession of two suitcases containing 35 parcels of Loud, a potent strain of cannabis, with a total weight of 37.6 kilogrammes.
NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, confirmed the arrest in a statement released on Sunday.
According to the statement, the suspect confessed to being recruited in London for the smuggling operation.
He admitted to travelling to Thailand to pick up the illicit cargo, which he was instructed to deliver to Nigeria.
Meanwhile, in Niger State, NDLEA officers acting on intelligence on Wednesday, May 7, intercepted a fuel truck marked ABJ 693 XU and three other vehicles loaded with 246 bags of skunk, a strain of cannabis with a combined weight of 3, 047 kilogrammes along Suleja-Kaduna Road.
The statement said, “Four suspects arrested with the exhibits include: Christopher Onyema, 47; Benedict Etineruba Young, 54; Chukwudi Ujue Jerry, 30; and Mohammed Abdullahi Danasabe.
“Apart from the fuel truck, three other vehicles recovered from the suspects include: Honda Odyssey bus marked YAB 667 CZ; Gulf bus with registration number GWA 125 TQ and Honda Odyssey bus marked ABJ 230 CN.”
“At Oja Amukoko in Ijora area of Lagos, two suspects: Eze Chekube Emmanuel and Ike Samuel Chinyerem were on Thursday, 8th May, arrested by NDLEA operatives with a total of 109,914 pills of tramadol, swinol and nitrozepam seized from them,” Babafemi said.
He said, “While 52.5kg skunk was recovered from two suspects: Lukman Sabo Umar, 23, and Tukur Ammadu, 20, in a bus at Gwantu, Sanga LGA, Kaduna State on Tuesday 6th May, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Bode Saadu- Jebba expressway, Kwara State on Monday, 5th May arrested Rufai Nasiru with 45,400 pills of tramadol 225mg.
“In Bauchi state, NDLEA officers on patrol along Bauchi-Gombe Road on Tuesday, 6th May, intercepted a Toyota Tundra jeep marked RBC 111 DW conveying 526 blocks of skunk weighing 505kg with two suspects: Isaac Onogure, 37 and Ikechukwu Peter, 44, arrested.”
Also, according to the statement, 31 kegs containing 775 litres of codeine syrup were recovered from two suspects, Hafizu Isa Uman, 34, and Ismail Shehu, 48, when NDLEA operatives raided their hideout at Rijiyar Zaki area of Kano on Saturday, May 10.
On Tuesday, May 6, 1.1kg of Loud consignment concealed in a pillow, coming from Thailand, was intercepted by NDLEA officers at a courier company in Lagos.
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