An ex-convict, Sodade Sunday Eniola, has been arrested again by officers of the MMIA Strategic Command of the Agency for passport racketeering.
In a statement, NDLEA’s spokesman recalled that the suspect, was arrested by operatives of the Tincan Command of NDLEA in June, 2024, for drug trafficking, prosecuted and jailed for four years in prison.
The statement explained that when Eniola was convicted by a Federal High Court in Lagos on 14th June 2024, the trial judge gave him an option of paying N750,000 fine, which he paid and set free.
But, in series of operations in December 2024, NDLEA operatives at the export shed of the Lagos airport intercepted no fewer than 52 passports of different Countries from shipments going to Canada, Russia, and other Countries concealed in shoe soles and food items.
Further investigations led to the arrest of four members of three syndicates involved in the racket, according NDLEA, which also recorded breakthroughs in drug fight last week in Rivers and Kano States.
NDLEA gave the names of the arrested suspects as Sodade Sunday Eniola; Ayinde Saheed Awwal; Salaudeen Afeez Ayode; and Sheriff Adebayo Bamigbade.
Both the exhibits and the suspects were on Monday 30th December 2024 handed over to the Zonal Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service in Lagos for further investigation and possible prosecution.
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