The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Operatives have arrested two drug traffickers at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, with consignments of cocaine and heroin going to Hong Kong and France in their bellies.
While 38-year-old Drug Trafficker, ThankGod Chimamkpa Emenike, was arrested at the boarding gate of the Abuja airport on Friday, 20th October 2023, during the outward clearance of passengers on Air France flight 818 to Paris, 41-year-old Agbo Chidike Prince was taken into NDLEA custody on Saturday, October 21, while attempting to board an Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 950 to Hong Kong via Addis Ababa.
They were both arrested and detained after their body scan revealed they ingested illicit drugs, after days in custody and a number of excretions.
Spokesperson for NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, who confirmed the development, yesterday, said Emenike excreted 72 wraps of heroin weighing 1.171 kilogrammes, while Chidike discharged 49 pellets of cocaine with a total weight of 998.53 grammes.
Babafemi said Chidike in his statement, claimed he was a businessman dealing in spare parts at the Alaba International market in Ojo area of Lagos.
He added that he was to be paid N3.1million, which he intended to use to import goods from Hong Kong.
Similarly, NDLEA operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, on Wednesday, October 25, intercepted a Qatar Airways flight passenger going to Oman, and arrested Agbo Celestine Tochukwu with a consignment of 58 parcels of skunk weighing 29.10kgs while undergoing processes to board his flight at the terminal 11 of the airport.
In his statement, Tochukwu claimed he relocated to Oman on May 6, and has been working as hotel attendant in Oman before venturing into drug trafficking.
Meanwhile, a total of 2,197 kilogrammes of skunk were recovered in four interdiction operations in parts of Ondo State within four days.
While 1,165.5kgs were seized in Uso, Owo Local Council on Wednesday, October 25, a consignment of 691kgs were recovered from Ukugu forest in Ipele the previous day, Tuesday, October 24.
