NDLEA arrests 67-year-old at Abuja airport for ingesting 100 wraps of cocaine; Nabs Saudi-bound lady with 52 pellets at Kano airport (photos/video)


By / October 9th, 2023
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Operatives of 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 he ventured into the drug business 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.

 

Chukwuemeka was arrested on Tuesday 3rd October during the inward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines flight 951 from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and taken for 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.

 

In his statement, he claimed to have spent 30 years in Brazil, Ethiopia and Thailand, while he was once married, but lost his wife and is without a child. He said that was why he decided to go into drug trafficking to raise enough money to marry a new wife and start life afresh.


 

NDLEA arrests 67-year-old at Abuja airport for ingesting 100 wraps of cocaine; Nabs Saudi-bound lady with 52 pellets at Kano airport (photos/video)

 

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 Saudia 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 Farawa area of Kano. When she led NDLEA officers to the house, 52 wraps of the illicit substance with a total weight of 767grams were recovered.

NDLEA arrests 67-year-old at Abuja airport for ingesting 100 wraps of cocaine; Nabs Saudi-bound lady with 52 pellets at Kano airport (photos/video)

 


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