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NDLEA Arrests  Hong Kong, France-bound Drug Barons At Abuja Airport, Excretes 112kg Cocaine, Heroin

...arrests hotel attendant with 29kgs of drugs

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October 29, 2023
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NDLEA Arrests  Hong Kong, France-bound Drug Barons At Abuja Airport, Excretes 112kg Cocaine, Heroin
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have arrested two businessmen at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja for attempting to export illicit drugs out of the country.

The anti-narcotic agency which confirmed this in a statement on Sunday said the suspects were arrested with consignments of cocaine and heroin going to Hong Kong and France concealed in their bellies.

Spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, said in the statement that one of them, 38-year-old ThankGod Chimamkpa Emenike was arrested at the boarding gate of the Abuja airport on Friday, 20th October during the outward clearance of passengers on Air France flight 818 to Paris, another passenger.

He said the second suspect, 41-year-old Agbo Chidike Prince was taken into NDLEA custody on Saturday, 21st October while attempting to board an Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 950 to Hong Kong via Addis Ababa.

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“They were both arrested and detained after their body scan revealed they ingested illicit drugs.

“After days in custody and a number of excretions, Emenike excreted 72 wraps of heroin weighing 1.171 kilograms, while Chidike discharged 49 pellets of cocaine with a total weight of 998.53grams.

“In his statement, Chidike claimed he is a businessman dealing in spare parts at the Alaba International market in Ojo area of Lagos.

“He added that he was to be paid N3.5million which he intended to use to import goods from Hong Kong.

“In the same vein, NDLEA operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos on Wednesday 25th October intercepted a Qatar Airways flight passenger going to Oman, 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 6th May and has been working as hotel attendant in Oman before venturing into drug trafficking,” the statement.

Meanwhile, the NDLEA said it also recovered a total of 2,197 kilograms of skunk in four interdiction operations it carried out in different parts of Ondo State within four days.

“While 1,165.5kgs were seized in Uso, Owo LGA on Wednesday , 25th October, a consignment of 691kgs were recovered from Ukugu forest in Ipele the previous day, Tuesday 24th October.

“A suspect, Ifeanyi Abuguja, 32, was arrested with 87kgs of same substance on Monday, 23rd October at Agula Road, Ogbese, Akure North LGA, while 253.5kgs were recovered at Ogbese market in Akure North LGA on Thursday 26th October.

” In Oyo State, two suspects: Ayo Dele, 19, and Olaitan Ahmed, 23, were arrested with 160 grams of cannabis at a drug joint at Nalende area of Ibadan metropolis on Sunday, 22nd October while a follow-up operation at their warehouse in the same area led to the recovery of 332kgs of the same substance.

“While operatives of the Lagos Command of the Agency intercepted and recovered a vehicle loaded with 209kgs of Loud at Okun Ajah area of the state on Monday 23rd October, their counterparts in Gombe on Saturday, 28th October recovered an abandoned consignment of 401 blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 392kgs and 21,000 capsules of tramadol at Tumfure area of the state.

“In the early hours of today, Sunday 29th October, NDLEA operatives in Edo State stormed the Utese forest in Ovia North East LGA, where they evacuated a total of 2,931.3 kilograms of cannabis sativa from a warehouse in the forest,” Babafemi said.

According to him, the War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) advocacy campaign of the agency continued in equal measure in schools, markets, worship places and others across the country in the past week.

He listed some of the activities carried out to include ; WADA town hall sensitization lecture by Zone E command in collaboration with Kano and Jigawa commands of the Agency for 108 principals of secondary schools in Dutse Emirate; same lecture for students and teachers of Nkpoghoro Community Secondary School, Afikpo, Ebonyi State; students and teachers of Government Secondary School and Community Comprehensive School, both in Abua/Odual LGA, Rivers State as well as WADA sensitisation lecture at Durbar Grammar School, Durbar, Oyo state.

In his reaction, the Chairman/CEO of NDLEA, retired Brig.-Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa commended the officers and men of the NAIA, MMIA, Ondo, Oyo, Lagos, Edo and Gombe Commands for the arrests and seizures of the past week.

Marwa urged them and their compatriots across all formations to sustain the tempo of the offensive action and strive to surpass previous records while maintaining a balance with their drug demand reduction efforts.   (vitalnewsngr.com)

 

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