A footage has shown a pack of illicit drugs concealed in a tuber of yam at the Lagos airport.

Femi Babafemi, the Director of Media and Publicity for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), shared the video in a tweet on Wednesday.

The tuber of yam appeared intact at first, with fissures difficult to see until it was dissected.

“The ingenuity and desperation to conceal drugs for export by cartels beat human imagination. This video shows another bust of an attempt to traffic illicit drugs using tubers of yam for concealment as discovered hours ago by NDLEA officers at the Lagos airport. Details will come in our Sunday statement,” Babafemi tweeted.

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About 1,855 kilograms of illicit drugs, worth more than N194 billion, was found in the Ikorodu area of Lagos in September.

The NDLEA claimed that a cartel intended to export the illicit substances to other parts of the world.

“The drugs were stored in 10 travel bags and 13 drums. The warehouse was raided on Sunday, 18th September, while the barons were picked from hotels and their hideouts in different parts of Lagos between Sunday night and Monday, 19th September,” the agency stated.

The volumes of illicit drugs uncovered in Lagos in recent times suggest that the city is a haven for drug dealers.