US-Based Grandmother Arrested With 9.45kg Of Cannabis

A 62-year-old Nigerian-American grandmother and a 34-year-old South African girl have been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in separate operations on the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, over alleged drug trafficking.

The grandmother, recognized as Anetor Gloria Ubong, was arrested after arriving from Houston, Texas, within the United States, with 9.45 kilogrammes of a high-grade hashish pressure often called loud, allegedly hid in one among her checked-in containers.

The South African girl, Qhina Beauty, was arrested whereas trying to board a Qatar Airways flight to South Africa by way of Doha with 36.65kg of cocaine hidden in her baggage.

The NDLEA in a press release issued on Sunday by Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, stated Ubong, 62, is a realtor based mostly in Richmond, Texas, and holds each Nigerian and United States passports.

According to the company, she was arrested on Wednesday, October 21, following her arrival on a United Airlines flight from Houston.

A search of her two checked-in containers reportedly uncovered 18 parcels of loud hid with gift-wrapping paper.

During questioning, Ubong allegedly advised investigators that her daughter and the daughter’s potential brother-in-law had delivered the field to her house within the United States.

She claimed she was requested to deliver the consignment to Nigeria for supply to her daughter’s fiancé, recognized as Jibola.

The company didn’t disclose whether or not the daughter, the possible brother-in-law or the meant recipient had been arrested or formally questioned in reference to the alleged trafficking operation.

In a separate operation, Beauty was arrested on the Lagos airport departure corridor on October 7 whereas making ready to depart Nigeria for South Africa by means of Doha.

NDLEA operatives reportedly found 30 blocks of cocaine weighing 36.65kg in her two travelling baggage. The substance had allegedly been combined with dried pepper, wrapped in cello tape and packed into seven separate parcels.

Beauty reportedly advised investigators that she arrived in Nigeria on September 30 particularly to gather the consignment.

She allegedly stated one other South African girl recruited her and promised to pay her 20,000 South African rand upon profitable supply of the medicine.

The suspect additionally reportedly recognized two different alleged members of the trafficking community — one based mostly within the United States and one other, a Lagos-based automobile supplier.

The NDLEA stated subsequent investigations led to the arrest of the automobile supplier, 46-year-old Uchenna Victor Umunnakwe, on October 14 at Apple Junction, Ago Palace Way, Lagos, after days of surveillance at his residence in Shasha.

Umunnakwe allegedly admitted receiving Beauty on the airport, lodging her at Santiago Hotel in Amuwo-Odofin and subsequently transferring her to Cynarisso Hotel close to the airport forward of her departure.

The arrests fashioned a part of a collection of operations through which the company stated it seized giant portions of illicit medicine throughout Lagos, Delta, Kano, Taraba, Niger, Bauchi, Ondo, Edo and Oyo states.

In Lagos, NDLEA operatives on October 23 arrested 41-year-old Eletu Rasheedat within the Eti-Osa space, recovering 5,820 diazepam tablets, 780 tramadol tablets, 3.7kg of skunk and 230.25 litres of a regionally produced alcoholic-drug combination often called skuchies.

In Delta State, operatives arrested 51-year-old Peter Ugochukwu in Warri and recovered 1000’s of pharmaceutical opioid merchandise, together with 29,350 tramadol capsules, 6,620 tablets of tramadol 200mg, 4,116 bottles of codeine syrup, 11,340 Rohypnol tablets and three,500 diazepam tablets.

The company additionally recovered 300 ampoules of pentazocine injection, 200 ampoules of diazepam injection and portions of tramadol 225mg, Molly and Cocodamol.

Ugochukwu was transferred to the NDLEA alongside a white Hummer bus by the Nigeria Police Force in Delta State.

In one other operation in Warri, a 46-year-old bodily challenged girl, Helen Bakporo Samson, was arrested at Enhere Junction on October 19 with 6kg of skunk.

In Ibadan, Oyo State, 41-year-old Fajana Dada Oluwaseyi was arrested on October 19 after allegedly escaping an earlier try and apprehend him.

The NDLEA stated officers had seized 197.8kg of hashish from his residence on September 16 earlier than his subsequent arrest.

In Kano State, a raid within the Gerawa space on October 22 led to the arrest of 30-year-old Murtala Lawan and the seizure of 159 blocks of hashish weighing 97.2kg.