NDLEA warns of traffickers swallowing drugs for desert road trips
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has revealed a new trend where traffickers ingest illicit drugs to travel overland through the Sahara Desert. Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA spokesman, highlighted that traffickers are now avoiding airports due to increased surveillance. This method involves excreting and reingesting drugs during their journey to North Africa and Europe. The NDLEA is intensifying highway monitoring to counter this risky practice.
What happened
- Femi Babafemi disclosed that traffickers are now swallowing drugs to bypass airport checks and use road routes through the Sahara.
- The NDLEA has observed a rise in roadside excretion and reingestion of drugs as officers increase highway patrols.
- A video shows NDLEA operatives recovering condom-wrapped drug pellets excreted by a suspect during a roadside intervention.
- The substances are tested on-site with chemical reagents to confirm the presence of illicit drugs.
- The NDLEA continues its crackdown on both airport and inland drug trafficking networks.
