Operatives of Nigeria’s Anti-narcotic Agency the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 67-year-old trafficker, Chukwuemeka Clement, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja for ingesting 100 wraps of cocaine.
The suspect claimed that the criminal enterprise he ventured into was to raise enough money to marry a new wife and start life afresh after wasting 30 years of his life in Brazil, Ethiopia and Thailand.
A press statement by NDLEA’s spokesperson Mr Femi BabaFemi said, Clement was arrested on Tuesday 3rd October during the inward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines flight 951 from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and taken for a body scan, which revealed multiple pellets in his stomach.
While under observation, he excreted a total of 100 wraps of cocaine weighing 2.195 kilograms in four excretions.
BabaFemi said, that on the same day, Tuesday 3rd October, NDLEA operatives at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano, intercepted a 45-year-old woman, Bilkisu Mohammed Bello while preparing to board a Saudi Airlines flight to Saudi Arabia.
While being interviewed, she confessed that pellets of cocaine given to her to swallow before her flight were kept in a house in the Farawa area of Kano.
“When she led NDLEA officers to the house, 52 wraps of the illicit substance with a total weight of 767 grams were recovered.”
Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives supported by officers and men of the Nigerian Army, Civil Defence Corps and Amotekun personnel on Tuesday 3rd October stormed James town, in Ogunmakin, Obafemi Owode local government area of Ogun state where they located and destroyed 10.38 tonnes of cannabis sativa covering over 4.152 hectares.
Similar arrests and seizures were made in Edo, Oyo and Gombe states by the NDLEA operatives.
While commending the officers and men of the affected commands of the Agency for their outstanding feats in the past week, the Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, retired Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa applauded their counterparts in all the commands across the country for intensifying their WADA advocacy lectures thus creating a fair balance between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction activities.
