The company mentioned South Africans are facilitating the motion of illicit medicine by way of Nigeria to different components of the world.
Assistant Director Media and Advocacy on the NDLEA Francis Okogun, representing the Director Media and Advocacy Femi Babafemi, disclosed this throughout a joint media briefing of Defence, safety and clever businesses, on the Office of the National Security Adviser, Abuja on Thursday.
He mentioned to this point three South Africans have been arrested with massive qualities of heroin, cocaine and artificial hashish.
Okogun mentioned, “On the arrest of South African nationals in reference to drug trafficking, you will need to make clear that the problem has attracted consideration due to the detrimental impression it might create about Nigeria internationally.
“Our findings point out that some international nationals are more and more changing into concerned in facilitating the motion of illicit medicine by way of Nigeria to different components of the world. Some are additionally concerned in bringing such substances into the nation.
“For the period under review, three individuals were arrested. What makes these arrests particularly significant is the large quantities of drugs recovered, including heroin, cocaine and synthetic cannabis, popularly known as Loud.”
According to him, the person arrested are suspected of engaged on behalf of worldwide drug cartels.
“As you already know, drug traffickers not often volunteer details about their sponsors or the ultimate locations of their consignments.
“We are therefore conducting painstaking investigations to establish the actual destinations of the drugs and identify the cartels responsible for the shipments,” NDLEA spokesperson added.
A 38-year-old South African girl, Ms. Will Jessica Ann has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja after she was discovered to have hid 14 massive blocks of heroin weighing 5.75 kilograms in her baggage, utilizing her three-year-old son as a canopy to beat safety checks and evade thorough screening.
In October 2026, a South African girl, Gebashe Sithandiwe Jessie, was arrested on the Port Harcourt International Airport for making an attempt to smuggle 32.74 kilograms of “Thai Loud” (artificial hashish) hid in her baggage.
On July 6, 2026, the NDLEA arrested a 38-year-old South African girl, Will Jessica Ann on the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja after she was discovered to have hid 14 massive blocks of heroin weighing 5.75 kilograms in her baggage, utilizing her three-year-old son as a canopy to beat safety checks and evade thorough screening.
The suspect was arrested throughout the inward clearance of passengers on Qatar Airways flight QR 1433 from Doha to Abuja. Though she initially denied travelling with check-in baggage, however after operatives have been capable of rapidly set up that the 2 baggage containing the medicine had tags which tallied with the declare tags connected to her passport, she recounted and admitted possession of the luggage including that she forgot she checked within the two baggage.
