Operatives of the Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company on the Mallam Aminu Worldwide Airport, have arrested a 38-year-old drug trafficking suspect, Okafor Anthony, whereas making an attempt to board a Qatar Airways flight to Iran by way of Doha with 76 wraps of cocaine in his abdomen.
NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, who confirmed the arrest on Sunday, mentioned the drug suspect was arrested final Sunday.
The assertion learn, “After three days in excretion commentary, Okafor excreted 76 pellets of the ingested cocaine weighing 1.267kg.”
Additionally in Kogi state, NDLEA officers on patrol alongside the Okene-Lokoja-Abuja expressway on Tuesday seventeenth September recovered 700,000 capsules of exol-5 coming from Lagos for distribution in Kano and Kaduna, whereas a suspect Udemefuna Chibuike, 23, was arrested by operatives on Friday twentieth September alongside Mokwa-Jebba highway, Niger state, in possession of 49,000 tablets of tramadol, 20,000 tablets of diazepam, 100 ampoules of tramadol injection and 50 bottles of cough syrup with codeine.
Additionally, a complete of 451 blocks of hashish, weighing 213kg had been intercepted alongside Azikiwe highway, Port Harcourt, Rivers state on Wednesday 18th September, by NDLEA officers, who apprehended a suspect, Ogochukwu Paul, 33, conveying the consignment to a infamous drug haven in Borikiri.
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