The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has raised the alarm over a dangerous new trafficking method — suspects are now ingesting illicit drugs to travel by road through the Sahara Desert to North Africa and eventually Europe .
NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, explaining that traffickers are shifting tactics after intensified surveillance at airports made air travel riskier .
“The latest code is appalling. Now they know that with modern tools and the vigilance of NDLEA officers at our airports, it’s now extremely difficult to pass through without being caught,” Babafemi stated. “They have now resorted to ingesting illicit drugs to travel by road from the south to the north and through the desert to North Africa and ultimately Europe.”
He described the method as extremely dangerous, involving multiple stops along the journey to excrete and re‑ingest the drug pellets. The NDLEA has released a video showing operatives conducting a roadside intervention, where officers recovered multiple yellowish, condom‑wrapped pellets excreted by a suspect. The substances were tested with chemical reagents to confirm the presence of illicit drugs .
Babafemi warned that due to the increasing presence of NDLEA officers on highways, “there will be many roadside excretion of illicit drugs as is the case in the attached video” .
This development underscores the agency’s sustained crackdown on both airport and inland drug networks, as traffickers continue to devise extreme methods to evade arrest.
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