Saudi Arabia-bound woman excretes 80 pellets of cocaine in Abuja

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a businesswoman heading to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for Umrah (Lesser Hajj), at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja for ingesting 80 pellets of cocaine. Spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, said on Monday in Abuja that the 46-year-old Mrs. Adisa Afusat Olayinka, who […]

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a businesswoman heading to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for Umrah (Lesser Hajj), at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja for ingesting 80 pellets of cocaine.

Spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, said on Monday in Abuja that the 46-year-old Mrs. Adisa Afusat Olayinka, who lives in Ibafo, Ogun State, hails from Ilorin, Kwara State.

She was arrested on Wednesday 24 November at the boarding screening area of the airport during an outward clearance of Qatar Airways flight 1418.

“She was subsequently taken into custody where she excreted 80 pellets of the illicit drug between Wednesday and Saturday, 27 November. She claimed during interviews that she saved N2.5m over a period of one year to buy the drugs in bits from six different people at Akala, Mushin area of Lagos.

“The suspect further said she was trading in clothes but had to borrow N1m from three persons to make up the money used to buy the drugs, and that she spent another N1m to renew her passport, visa and buy return flight tickets,” Babafemi said.

The suspect also said she was encouraged to traffic the drugs by a woman she met during her last Umrah trip to Saudi Arabia in 2019.