Smuggling drugs through Lagos airport extremely difficult – Marwa

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Chairman, Buba Marwa, has stated that smuggling illicit substances done Murtala Muhammed International Airport has go highly challenging owed to heightened information and anti-narcotics operations.

Marwa described the Lagos airdrome arsenic 1 of the astir tightly monitored airports globally successful the combat against cause trafficking.

He made the remarks connected Tuesday astatine the NDLEA office successful Abuja portion hosting a delegation from Narcotics Control Commission led by its Director-General, Maxwell Obuba Mantey, during a survey sojourn focused connected the agency’s operational strategies.

According to Marwa, stronger collaboration betwixt Nigeria and Ghana is indispensable successful addressing the rising menace posed by cause trafficking and related transgression activities crossed the West African region.

“We admit that by coming unneurotic to stock expertise successful intelligence-led operations and interdiction strategies, we are efficaciously narrowing the abstraction for transgression cartels to run wrong our sub-region,” helium said.

He noted that the sojourn goes beyond a regular survey tour, describing it arsenic portion of efforts to deepen strategical practice betwixt some anti-drug agencies.

Marwa said the engagement would alteration some sides to speech ideas connected quality gathering, integer forensics and organization champion practices.

He added that enhanced co...