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TRANSNATIONAL TRAFFICKING: South Africans entering Nigeria and fuelling global cartel drug trafficking, security briefing hears

Daily Maverick · Nov 8, 2026
TRANSNATIONAL TRAFFICKING: South Africans entering Nigeria and fuelling global cartel drug trafficking, security briefing hears

Francis Okogun, an anti-drug agency official in Nigeria, has countered a notion he says his South African counterparts often convey – that Nigerian citizens frequently traffic drugs. Okogun has pointed out that South Africans have recently been arrested in Nigeria in illicit drug cases and are allegedly helping cartels move consignments through that country.

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