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The personnel of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested an Indian businessman, namedVyapak Nutal for smuggling of 134,700 bottles of Codeine syrup and Indian Hemp into the country through the land border between Nigeria and Niger Republic in Sokoto state.



The suspect had loaded the consignment into trucks in Cotonou, Benin Republic and drove through the land borders via Niger Republic before entering Sokoto state at the Illela border. Settled in a hotel in Sokoto state, credible intelligence reveals that Nutal began to look for buyers for the controlled drug. While operatives were on his trail, officers of the Department of State Security were able to apprehend him and swiftly handed him over to NDLEA on Wednesday 10th February 2022.


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