Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 67-year-old trafficker, Chukwuemeka Clement, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja for ingesting 100 wraps of cocaine.
NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi, in a statement said, the suspected trafficker claimed he ventured into the criminal enterprise 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.
According to Babafemi, Chukwuemeka was arrested 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.
He said, while under observation, he excreted a total of 100 wraps of cocaine weighing 2.195 kilograms in four excretions.
According to the statement, the suspect claimed to have spent 30 years in Brazil, Ethiopia and Thailand, while he was once married, but lost his wife and without a child.
In a related development, a 45-year-old woman, Bilkisu Mohammed Bello was arrested for drug ingestion while preparing to board a Saudia Airlines flight to Saudi Arabia at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano.
While being interviewed, she confessed that pellets of cocaine given to her to swallow before her flight and 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.
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