Auto Parts Dealer Arrested Over Attempt To Export Heroin, Cannabis Concealed in Lamps, Sofa Legs

A statement on Sunday by the spokesman of the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi said Ejiofor was arrested last Tuesday at the Trade Fair complex, Ojo area of Lagos where he sells automobile spare parts following the seizure of his cargo containing auto parts, rechargeable lamps, sofa metal legs and electronics going to Liberia at the export shed of the Lagos airport.

Babafemi said concealed inside the LED lamps and sofa legs were 37 parcels of heroin weighing 1.1 kilogrammes and four blocks of loud with a total weight of 1.2 kilogrammes, adding that a swift follow up operation led to the arrest of two freight agents and then Ejiofor who sent the consignment.