The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has apprehended SimonPeter Oguejiofor, a returnee from Thailand, for importing 13.30 kilograms of heroin valued at over N3.192 billion at Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Ikeja, Lagos.
The agency's spokesman, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja.
The arrest highlights NDLEA's continued efforts to curb drug trafficking and ensure national security.
Mr Babafemi said that NDLEA operatives intercepted large consignments of Opioids with combined monetary value of more than N22.7 billion at three seaports in Lagos.
He said that Oguejiofor was arrested on Monday, Oct. 7 while attempting to smuggle out of the airport the illicit drug concealed in six backpacks and then packed into two big suitcases.
He added that the 29-year-old graduate of Mechanical Engineering from the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Uli, Anambra state, had left Thailand on Oct. 3 on a Qatar Airways flight and stopped over in Doha.