South African lady, US-based grandma arrested with giant cocaine, loud shipments

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 34-year-old South African lady, Qhina Beauty, with 36.65 kilograms of cocaine on the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, and a 62-year-old Nigerian-American grandmother, Anetor Gloria Ubong, with 9.45kg of high-grade hashish, loud, imported from the United States.

A press release from Femi Babafemi, spokesperson of the anti-drug company, says Qhina was arrested on the departure corridor of the Lagos airport on October 7 whereas making an attempt to board a Qatar Airways flight to South Africa by way of Doha. A search of her two travelling luggage led to the restoration of 30 blocks of cocaine weighing 36.65kg, laced with dried pepper, wrapped in cello tape and packed into seven separate parcels.

During her interview, Qhina advised operatives she arrived in Nigeria on thirtieth September particularly to choose up the consignment. She mentioned she was recruited by one other South African woman, who promised her R20,000 on profitable supply. She claimed she was launched to 2 different members of the syndicate: one based mostly within the United States and the opposite a Lagos-based automobile seller.

Investigations later led to the arrest, on 14th October, of the 46-year-old automobile seller Uchenna Victor Umunnakwe, who was intercepted at Apple Junction, Ago Palace Way, Lagos, after days of surveillance at his Shasha residence. He admitted receiving Qhina on the airport, lodging her at Santiago Hotel in Amuwo-Odofin, and later shifting her to Cynarisso Hotel close to the airport, forward of her departure.

In one other interdiction operation on the Lagos airport, NDLEA officers on Wednesday, twenty first October, arrested a 62-year-old grandma Anetor Gloria Ubong, a realtor based mostly in Richmond, Texas, who holds each Nigerian and US passports. Authorities arrested her after she arrived on a United Airlines flight from Houston. A search of her two checked-in bins uncovered 18 parcels of loud, an artificial hashish weighing 9.45kg, hid with reward wrapping paper in a field. She claimed her daughter and the daughter’s future brother-in-law delivered the field to her dwelling within the US for onward supply in Nigeria to her daughter’s fiancé, Jibola.