The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, announced that its operatives have thwarted an attempt by a 24-year-old Thai lady, Ms. Pattaphi Wimonnat, to smuggle 43 parcels of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, weighing 46.60 kilograms into Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos.
The NDLEA said Wimonnat was arrested after its operatives discovered the illicit consignment in her boxes.
This was contained in a statement by Femi Babafemi, Director of Media & Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja.
Babafemi said the suspect, who confessed to being a hired drug trafficker, was arrested on Thursday during the inward clearance of passengers on a Qatar Airways flight from Thailand via Doha, Qatar, at the arrival hall, Terminal 2 of the Lagos airport.
According to the statement, Wimonnat said the drug cartel that recruited her had promised to pay her $3,000 upon the successful delivery of the illicit drug consignment in Nigeria.
Similarly, Babafemi announced that NDLEA officers frustrated another bid by a drug trafficking syndicate to ship 68 parcels of Ghanaian Loud, with a total weight of 42.2kg, concealed in the walls of crated cartons to London, UK, through the export shed of the Lagos airport on Friday.
