How Mexican drug cartels have outsourced meth labs to Nigeria
Mexican specialists in manufacturing methamphetamine, often described as "cooks", are increasingly being found working alongside locals in laboratories in Europe and Africa, according to law-enforcement agencies.
Image source, ReutersImage caption, Anti-narcotics officers inspect the site of a suspected illegal drug laboratory in a dense forested area of western NigeriaBySimi JolaosoAfrica correspondentReporting fromOgun stateThe Nigerian judge was formally dressed, the lawyers maintained legal decorum and protocol was followed – but this hearing was not in the comfortable confines of a Lagos courtroom, it was inside an alleged illicit drug laboratory in the thick of a dense forest.
Three Mexicans and seven Nigerians were paraded in handcuffs, as Justice Musa Kakaki inspected the chemicals and equipment they were accused of using to produce the harmful illegal synthetic drug, methamphetamine, commonly known as meth, crystal meth or, locally, ice.
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