NDLEA arrests two Europe-bound businessmen who ‘excreted 200 wraps of cocaine’ at Abuja airport

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has
arrested two Nigerians based mostly in France after they allegedly ingested 200 wraps
of cocaine weighing 3.46 kilogrammes.

 

The suspects, recognized as Aliocus Godian Odife and Sam
Blackborn, had been intercepted on October 28 in the course of the outward clearance of an
Air France flight AF 832 from Abuja to Paris on the Nnamdi Azikiwe
International Airport.

In a press release issued on Sunday, Femi Babafemi, NDLEA
director of media and advocacy, stated each males had travelled to Nigeria for
holidays earlier than making an attempt to return to France.

Odife, who reportedly lives in France and works in a
manufacturing unit, arrived in Nigeria on October 21. A physique scan carried out throughout his
departure clearance indicated the presence of overseas objects in his abdomen.

The company stated Odife admitted to ingesting 110 wraps of
cocaine.

“He was positioned underneath statement throughout which he excreted
all 110 wraps, which examined optimistic for cocaine, with a complete weight of 1.901
kilograms,” the assertion reads.

His co-traveller, Blackborn, additionally examined optimistic for
ingestion following a physique scan. He confessed to swallowing 90 wraps of
cocaine, which he excreted underneath statement. The recovered substances weighed
1.559 kilogrammes.

NDLEA SEIZES 2,496.5KG OF CANNABIS IN FOUR STATES

In Lagos, operatives intercepted two buses conveying a complete
of 976 kilogrammes of skunk, a powerful pressure of hashish, on October 25.

The first seizure occurred alongside Kudirat Abiola Way, Ikeja,
the place officers recovered 537 kilogrammes of the substance from a Volkswagen LT
28 bus.

On the identical day, one other crew intercepted a brown J5 bus
alongside the Gbagada-Oshodi expressway and recovered 439 kilogrammes of skunk.

In Oyo state, two suspects, Oguntona Nasiru, 46, and Soji
Balogun, 47, had been arrested on October 29 whereas allegedly loading 554
kilogrammes of skunk right into a Volvo truck alongside Idere Road, Igboora.

The operation was a follow-up to an earlier raid concentrating on a
suspected drug seller recognized as Omo Oba, who reportedly escaped arrest on
October 25. During that operation, NDLEA operatives seized 309.5 kilogrammes of
hashish, popularly generally known as Ghanaian Loud, allegedly linked to him.

In Edo state, NDLEA operatives, supported by troopers,
destroyed a hashish plantation measuring 1.646 hectares at Eko Camp in Ilushi,
Esan South East LGA, on October 28.

The company stated the plantation had an estimated yield of
4,115.53 kilogrammes of hashish. A 50-year-old lady, Christiana Uboi, was
arrested on the camp with 301 kilogrammes of processed hashish, whereas one other
176 kilogrammes was recovered in the course of the operation.

In Ondo state, 4 suspects had been arrested throughout a raid on
hashish farms in Ijare forest on October 25. The operatives recovered 180
kilogrammes of processed hashish packed in 16 luggage.

NDLEA ARRESTS WOMAN WITH 266 AK-47 AMMUNITION ROUNDS

Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives on patrol alongside the Abuja-Kaduna
expressway arrested a lady, Aisha Isah, with 266 rounds of stay AK-47
ammunition at a tollgate.

In Kaduna, a 68-year-old man, Ifeanyi Egwolonwu, was
arrested at Gwargwaje, Zaria, alongside the Zaria-Kano expressway, with 2,770
ampoules of pentazocine injection, 100 ampoules of diazepam injection, 11,000
diazepam tablets and 4,500 Exol-5 tablets.

The company additionally stated its operatives arrested two males,
Ziya’ulhaq Abdullahi, 35, and Garba Muhammed, 52, in Dorayi, Kano, on October
28, with 19,250 tramadol 225mg capsules.

In one other operation in Kano, officers recovered 247,500
diazepam tablets weighing 57.7 kilogrammes and 100,000 Exol-5 tablets weighing
38.7 kilogrammes from a location in Tsamiya, Gezawa.

In Sokoto, operatives arrested Ibrahim Ayuba, with 236.6
kilogrammes of skunk on October 31.

The NDLEA additionally reported the arrest of seven suspects throughout
a raid in Tashan Banke, Kaduna, the place 178.85 kilogrammes of hashish and
portions of diazepam, tramadol, Exol-5 and pregabalin had been recovered.

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