COURT JAILS INDIA-DELHI BOUND PASSENGER FOR 25 YEARS OVER DRUG TRAFFICKING
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Freeman Ogbonna, a traveler headed for Delhi, India, was sentenced to prison by the Federal High Court in Lagos for cocaine trafficking.
At the screening area of Terminal 2 of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Ikeja, Ogbonna was taken into custody on March 31 by agents of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
The trafficker informed him that if he successfully delivered the shipment in India, he would be rewarded with ₦300,000 in cash, according to a statement released by the NDLEA spokesman on Tuesday, Femi Babafemi.
“The great risk that almost took his life notwithstanding, Ogbonna said he was given the drugs to swallow at a hotel in the Ipodo area of Ikeja with a promise to reward him with N300,000 cash if he successfully delivered the consignment in India,” the statement read.
“The suspect who claimed he was recruited into drug trafficking by one of his relatives eventually passed out a total of 80 wraps of cocaine weighing 889 grams through his mouth and anus over a period of four days.
“Three months after vomiting and excreting eighty (80) wraps of cocaine following his arrest by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the screening point of terminal 2 of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos, a Delhi, India-bound passenger, Freeman Charles Ogbonna, has been sentenced to twenty-five (25) years imprisonment by a Federal High Court.”
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