Man arrested for ingesting 53 wraps of cocaine as NDLEA cracks down on drug trade
The Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) has arrested a 44-year-former man, Ezemokwe Chukwuebuka, at the Port Harcourt International Airport for ingesting fifty three wraps of cocaine while en route to Tehran Khomeini, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Chukwuebuka became as soon as apprehended on Saturday, June 7, as he tried to board Qatar Airways flight QR1434 to Tehran through Doha. A body scan confirmed he had ingested the medication, ensuing in his placement below excretion teach. He expelled the fifty three wraps in six excretions, totalling 1.172kg.
The NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, published in a assertion that the suspect admitted to being taking into account the drug switch for two years, running between the West African sub-teach and Iran.
This arrest follows a identical incident two weeks earlier when NDLEA operatives at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport intercepted 60-year-former Chinedu Leonard Okigbo, a businessman, who had ingested 65 pellets of cocaine while trying to lope to Iran.
In one more operation at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, NDLEA officers, in collaboration with the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) Aviation Security, arrested Edobor Ambrose Ali, an Italy-sure passenger on an Air France flight, on Saturday, June 14.
Baggage scanning published 14,410 tramadol pills hid in winter jackets. Ali confessed to being recruited in Italy and sent on an all-costs-paid outing to Nigeria to courier the medication to Milan for a rate of €2,000.
At the Port Harcourt Ports in Onne, Rivers Mumble, NDLEA operatives intercepted a cargo of 157,800 bottles of codeine-basically based mostly syrup valued at over N1.1 billion. The opioids were hidden within the serve of 257 cartons of ceramic sanitary wares. Three suspects, Friday Achibong Joseph, 47; Abraham Anthony Willy, 21; and Utibe David Okon, 24, were arrested all the diagram through the operation.
In a separate operation in Fallacious River Mumble, NDLEA officers raided a warehouse in Obereakai, Odukpani Native Council, convalescing 2,687kg of skunk, a potent stress of cannabis.
Moreover, two men, Iriemi Imonikhe, 49, and Sa’idu Ladan, 30, were arrested alongside the Bauchi-Jos road in Bauchi Mumble. Officers found 195 blocks of skunk weighing 287kg in their Toyota Camry.
In Lagos, the Marine Clarify of NDLEA seized 14 jumbo sacks of skunk weighing 560kg from a wood boat at Oniru beach. On Thursday, June 12, two businessmen, Ishaku Abdullahi, 30, and Buba Usman, 32, were apprehended at the advent hall of the domestic flit of Muhammadu Buhari International Airport, Maiduguri, with quantities of ecstasy pills and skunk wrapped and labelled as “Lychee” and “Porro Obedient.”
Within the meantime, NDLEA’s Battle In opposition to Drug Abuse social advocacy campaign continued nationwide, with sensitisation lectures held at colleges reminiscent of Clarify Secondary College in Orba, Enugu; Divine Gift International College, Abakaliki; Baptist Valuable College, Within the past-Are, Oyo Mumble; and St. Vincent Secondary College, Oti-Oron, Akwa Ibom Mumble.
