Ihejirika who frequents Thailand from where
he claims to be importing fish into Nigeria was arrested on Tuesday 15th
October 2024 while attempting to board an Ethiopian Airlines flight to Thailand
via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. When he was taken for body scan, the result showed
he ingested illicit drug which proved to be cocaine. As a result, he was placed
under excretion observation during which he expelled five big egg size wraps of
cocaine weighing 400grams.
In a statement released, the spokesperson
of the anti-drug agency says the 51-year-old suspect confessed that he was to
be paid upon successful delivery of the drug consignment in Thailand. He said
he needed the money to boost his fish importation business.
In the same vein, NDLEA operatives at the
Lagos airport on Thursday 17th October intercepted a 26-year-old businessman
Iwuagwu Ikedi Victory coming from Brazil via Addis Ababa during the inward
clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines flight. His body scan revealed
ingestion of illicit drug. When he was put under observation, he excreted a
pellet of cocaine weighing 22 grams.
He however confessed that he ingested 30
wraps of the illicit drug in Brazil but excreted 29 pellets in Addis Ababa,
where he handed them over to another person. The suspect revealed that he was
to be paid N2.5 million for trafficking the drug.
Meanwhile, a Nigerian Canadian nurse Usman
Grace Khadijat Olami was on 4th October arrested by NDLEA officers at the Lagos
airport during the inward clearance of Air France passengers from Toronto,
Canada via Paris. During a search of her luggage, a total of 70 parcels of
Canadian Loud, weighing 35.70kg were recovered from her.
During her interview, she claimed she was
in Nigeria to meet her boyfriend who instructed her to come with the large
consignment of the highly sought-after synthetic cannabis.
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