Man arrested at Kano airport for allegedly ingesting 95 wraps of cocaine
A 62-year-old Lagos-based businessman Nwabueze Nicholas Izueke has been arrested at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) Kano by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) while heading to China with 95 jumbo-sized wraps of cocaine weighing 1.589 kilograms. The illicit drug was allegedly buried in his stomach. According to the NDLEA’s […]
Man arrested at Kano airport for allegedly ingesting 95 wraps of cocaine
A 62-year-old Lagos-based businessman Nwabueze Nicholas Izueke has been arrested at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) Kano by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) while heading to China with 95 jumbo-sized wraps of cocaine weighing 1.589 kilograms.
The illicit drug was allegedly buried in his stomach.
According to the NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, Nwabueze was arrested on Saturday, January 31, at the Kano airport during the outward clearance of passengers going to China via Addis Ababa on Ethiopian Airlines flight ET940. According to the Agency, when taken for body scan, he tested positive for ingesting illicit drug and was promptly placed under excretion observation.
While under observation, the suspect who claims he’s into clothing and auto spare parts business in Lagos, expelled a total of 95 pellets of the class A drug in seven excretions, the Agency added in a statement on Sunday.
The suspect, in his statement, claimed he decided to engage in illicit drug trafficking to raise enough money to complete the country home he’s building in his village, Iwollo, Enugu state.
The Agency added that a total of 627.7 kilograms of skunk, a strain of cannabis, were recovered from a makeshift warehouse within a plaza in Kubwa, FCT, adding that attempt by Ebube Okeke, Evans Ugwu, Mohammed Eze Arinze and Friday Michael to smuggle consignments of methamphetamine concealed in Mp3 speakers from Enugu to Abuja and Kaduna was on Friday foiled by the NDLEA operatives in Abuja who intercepted the consignments in a bus.
A follow up operation in Zuba, FCT led to the arrest of Ebube Okeke who is the owner of one of the parcels containing 173grams of meth, while the trio of Evans Ugwu, Mohammed Eze Arinze and Friday Michael were nabbed on Saturday in Kaduna when they showed up to collect the second consignment weighing 28grams of meth.