NDLEA arrests 12 with drugs hidden in baby food tins.

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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested 12 persons suspected of possessing illicit drugs hidden in Cerelac baby food tins, clothes, and bodies of vehicle compartments, across various states in the country.

This was disclosed in a statement released on the NDLEA’s official X account, signed by its Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday.

According to the statement, a freight agent, Suliat Salaudeen, was arrested after multiple shipments of illicit drugs hidden in tins of Cerelac baby food and clothes going to the United States and the United Kingdom were seized by the NDLEA, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, and a courier firm in Lagos.

Consequently, a follow-up operation in Ibadan, Oyo State on Saturday, August 3, led to the arrest of the sender of the cargo, Motunrayo Bello, at 20 Mofoluwasho Estate, Elewuro, Akobo area of the same State.

PUNCH Metro gathered that 36 parcels of a strong strain of cannabis, weighing 18.5kg, were hidden in six cartons of tins of branded Nestle Cerelac baby food, with six containers in each package were recovered at the SAHCOL export shed of Lagos airport on Wednesday, July 31.

The Cerelac tins were reportedly all factory-sealed at the top while they tampered with the bottom through which they put the substances covered with loose quantities of the infant cereal meal to prevent discovery, an effort that ended in futility as vigilant NDLEA officers were able to foil the attempt.

Meanwhile, the NDLEA operatives at the Tin Can port in Lagos on Friday, August 2, arrested two suspects, Salami Sunday, 34, and Lekan Atoyebi, 33, after recovering 77 packages of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis weighing 38.5kg from the body compartments of four vehicles: Toyota Highlander, Ford Explorer, Toyota Corolla and Toyota Sienna imported from Canada.

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