Traffickers Now Swallow Drugs for Sahara Road Route, Warns NDLEA

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has sounded a critical alarm regarding a disturbing new modus operandi employed by drug traffickers. These criminals are now ingesting illicit substances, swallowing them in pellets, to facilitate overland journeys across the vast Sahara Desert, aiming for North Africa and ultimately Europe. This dangerous tactic emerges as a direct response to the heightened surveillance and stringent measures at airports, which have made traditional smuggling routes significantly more perilous.

NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi highlighted the increasing difficulty traffickers face in bypassing airport security, forcing them to adopt increasingly desperate and risky methods. The ingestion of drugs is a perilous undertaking, involving multiple instances of excretion and re-ingestion during the arduous desert transit. This highlights the extreme lengths to which these individuals will go to evade law enforcement.

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The latest code is appalling. Now they know that with modern tools and vigilance of @ndlea_nigeria officers at our airports, it’s now extremely difficult to pass through without being caught, 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 with about three stops to excrete and reingest.

Babafemi expressed grave concern over the risks involved, questioning the sanity of such methods. However, he assured the public that the agency's vigilance extends to highways across the nation. With the "code" now "cast" – meaning this method is also compromised – and NDLEA officers intensifying their presence on the roads, Nigerians should brace for more instances of roadside discoveries of excreted illicit drugs. The attached video, showing operatives recovering drug pellets, serves as stark evidence of this evolving threat.

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Is this risk not too much? Anyways, the bad news is that code too does cast and with the increasing presence of NDLEA officers on the highways, there will be many roadside excretion of illicit drugs as is the case in the attached video.