The cooking cauldrons and vats of chemicals were left behind in an abandoned shed, hidden in a Nigerian forest -- remnants of an alleged multimillion-dollar transnational meth operation.
Authorities Wednesday dismantled the crude, makeshift meth lab after an ongoing trial involving three Mexican nationals took a day to hold court proceedings on-site last week.
AFP visited the lab, in southwestern Ogun state, with officers from the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) as they brought in a local welder and carpenter to dismantle the cauldrons and filtration equipment used to make the meth.
West Africa in recent years has emerged as a transit point for drugs making their way from South America to Europe -- mostly cocaine.
But the meth bust -- which nabbed the largest such lab ever discovered in Nigeria -- points to Mexican cartel involvement in the country, local authorities have said. "About our readiness to combat the cartel... yes, we are ready," James Taalba, the NDLEA's deputy commander of narcotics, told AFP.
