Illegal drug dealers have devised a new method of concealing illicit drugs in mirror sachets to avoid the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency’s operatives’ watch net.

According to National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Lagos State Command, the illicit drug dealers initiated this new tactic to avoid arrest and outsmart unsuspecting public.

Its Lagos State Commander, Ralph Igwenagu, noted that the agency had discovered this new method saying `’ NDLEA, through all its mechanisms and personnel is determined to make the country a drug free zone.

Igwenagu says the agency has extended its search and operations to new areas that the dealers will never imagine.

According to him, they needed to expose this new tactics so the public can be sensitive to the unique illicit drug packaging or else, the innocent publc may think they are buying mirror.

He called parents to be alive to their responsibilities and watch out for their children as a way of curbing drug abuse and trafficking in the country.

Igwenagu also condemned the lifestyles of some parents who sacrifice good parenting etiquette to the pursuit of wealth, thus putting the lives of their children in great jeopardy.

`The lack of responsible parenting had paved way for many youths, through peer pressures, to get into the buying of hard drugs and other devastating crimes,” he said.

He warned drug dealers to be wary of the number of lives that could be wasted from their illicit business of illegal drug deals.

The commander added that the command at the end of the third quarter arrested no less than 228 drug offenders comprising 204 males and 24 females.