Monday, May 12, 2025 - Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a woman, Ihensekhien Obehi, at the Port Harcourt International Airport for attempting to smuggle cocaine to Iran through an unusual concealment strategy involving her private part, stomach, and handbag. Obehi, disguised in a hijab, was apprehended on Sunday, May 3, 2025, while trying to board a Qatar Airways flight to Iran via Doha.
NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi confirmed in a statement
that she was caught with three wraps of cocaine inserted in her private part,
two parcels hidden in the false bottom of her handbag, and 67 pellets she had
ingested.
“During her search, she was found to have inserted three
wraps of cocaine into her private part, with two large parcels hidden in false
compartments of her handbag, while she had also swallowed 67 pellets of the
Class A drug. As a result, she was placed under excretion observation. After
four excretions over several days, she expelled all 67 wraps. She claimed she
was meant to swallow 70 pellets of cocaine but, after ingesting 67, could no
longer continue and decided to insert the remaining three into her private
part. The total weight of the three consignments hidden in different parts of
her body is 2.523 kilograms,” Babafemi stated.
In a related incident, NDLEA operatives at Murtala Muhammed
International Airport in Lagos intercepted a 22-year-old British national,
Campbell Slifer, on Friday, May 9, in possession of two suitcases containing 35
parcels of Loud, a strong variant of cannabis, with a total weight of 37.6kg.
Babafemi revealed that Slifer, who has a prior conviction for drug trafficking
and robbery in the UK, told investigators he was recruited in London to pick up
the drugs in Thailand and deliver them to Nigeria
Further anti-narcotics operations across Nigeria also
yielded major seizures. In Niger State, NDLEA officers intercepted a fuel
tanker and three other vehicles transporting 246 bags of skunk weighing 3,047kg
along the Suleja-Kaduna Road. Four suspects—Christopher Onyema, 47; Benedict
Etineruba Young, 54; Chukwudi Ujue Jerry, 30; and Mohammed Abdullahi
Danasabe—were arrested. The vehicles recovered included a Honda Odyssey bus
with plate number YAB 667 CZ, a Gulf bus with registration number GWA 125 TQ, and
another Honda Odyssey marked ABJ 230 CN.
In Lagos, 1.1kg of Loud concealed in a pillow from Thailand
was intercepted at a courier service hub. In Bauchi State, NDLEA patrol
officers on the Bauchi–Gombe Road intercepted a Toyota Tundra jeep with plate
number RBC 111 DW carrying 526 blocks of skunk weighing 505kg. Two men, Isaac
Onogure, 37, and Ikechukwu Peter, 44, were taken into custody. In Kano, a raid
at a hideout in the Rijiyar Zaki area on Saturday, May 10, led to the recovery
of 31 kegs containing 775 litres of codeine syrup. Two suspects, Hafizu Isa
Uman, 34, and Ismail Shehu, 48, were arrested.
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