Arrested smugglers excrete 119 wraps of drugs at Abuja airport
The Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport’s Special Area Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said two of the three suspected drug smugglers arrested yesterday at the airport excreted a combined 119 wraps of drugs. The Principal Staff Officer, Public Affairs of the command, Jonah Achema, said the suspects, John Prince Louis Ifechukwu, […]
The Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport’s Special Area Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said two of the three suspected drug smugglers arrested yesterday at the airport excreted a combined 119 wraps of drugs.
The Principal Staff Officer, Public Affairs of the command, Jonah Achema, said the suspects, John Prince Louis Ifechukwu, Victor Chibuzor Olochukwu Anadu and Omotayo Anifowoshe, were intercepted at the outward clearance at the airport.
He said 31-year-old Ifechukwu from Ihiala, Anambra State flew in from Lagos and was intercepted at the Abuja Airport as he was to board his flight to Jakarta, Indonesia.
“Ifechukwu, a trader in female wears in Balogun market in Lagos, excreted 65 wraps of substances weighing 864 grams out of which only one wrap tested positive to methamphetamine while the remaining tested negative to all known drugs,” he said.
He added that the suspect was arrested with Indonesian Trade Fair Visa and an Ethiopia Airline ticket, claiming that he was on his way to Jakarta to bring in female wears. He said the trip was facilitated by a friend who linked him with an unknown fellow that handed him the lethal consignment to deliver in Indonesia.
“Anadu, a father of four from Oraifite, near Ozobullu, Anambra State was intercepted on his way to Indonesia. He excreted 54 wraps weighing 1, 073.4 kilogramme of the suspected substance out of which 700 grams tested positive to methamphetamine while the remaining 373.4 grams did not test positive to any known drugs,” Achema said.
He said the third suspect, Anifowoshe, a 37-year-old indigene of Epe, Lagos State, was arrested as she landed from Lagos to connect her flight to South Africa through a short cut linking the local Airport to the International Airport, successfully boycotting security screening point.
“She was, however, intercepted with two giant bags containing three kilogrammes of Ephedrine and 1.9 kilogrammes of cocaine base. The drugs were concealed in the false bottom and false walls of the bags.
“Anifowoshe confessed that the luggage was handed to her by her fiancé at whose instance was the trip.”
Commander of the Airport’s command, Hamisu Lawan, called for the provision of drug detecting equipment at the airport and expressing concern over the merger of local and international passengers before the screening point