
NDLEA ARREST CANADA-BASED NURSE, TWO BUSINESSMEN OVER DRUG TRAFFICKING
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested two businessmen for attempting to import and export cocaine pellets and parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis through the Lagos airport.
The suspects – Okechukwu Emmanuel, Iwuagwu Ikedi Victory and Usman Grace Khadijat Olami – were nabbed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos
Spokesman of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.
“Ihejirika who frequents Thailand from where he claims to be importing fish into Nigeria was arrested on Tuesday 15th October 2024 while attempting to board an Ethiopian Airlines flight to Thailand via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,” the statement read.
“When he was taken for body scan, the result showed he ingested an illicit drug which proved to be cocaine.
“As a result, he was placed under excretion observation during which he expelled five big egg size wraps of cocaine weighing 400 grams.”
Babafemi said the 51-year-old suspect confessed that he was to be paid upon successful delivery of the drug consignment in Thailand.
The NDLEA spokesman noted that the suspect claimed he needed the money to boost his fish importation business.
In the same vein, NDLEA operatives at the Lagos airport on Thursday 17th October intercepted a 26-year-old businessman Iwuagwu Ikedi Victory coming from Brazil via Addis Ababa during the inward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines flight.
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