Engineer-Turned-Trafficker Busted by NDLEA Smuggling Ill#cit dr¥gs in Pressure Machines from South Africa

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), have arrested a suspected dr¥g trafficker identified as Egwu Phillip Inya who claims to be a building engineer, while attempting to take delivery of ill#cit consignments concealed in pressure machines imported from South Africa.

This was revealed in a signed statement by the agency’s Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi on Sunday, December 8, 2024.

The 42-year-old Egwu was arrested on Monday 2nd December 2024 at Okeyson motor park Enugu when he showed up to collect three units of pressure machines inside which were hidden parcels of Lo¥d, a synthetic strain of cann@bis, weighing 7.40 kilograms.

The consignments had arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos import shed on 29th November 2024. Following credible intelligence, officers of the MMIA Strategic Command of the Agency had monitored the shipment pass through clearing processes up to a logistics company’s warehouse outside the airport where it was to be collected by the consignee.

The importer however changed the point of collection to Enugu at the last minute. As a result, NDLEA operatives in a follow up operation in Enugu arrested Egwu when he showed up to collect the consignments concealed in pressure machines imported from South Africa.