Iloduba Augustine, an Ethiopian Airlines passenger, who arrived Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, excreted 48 Cocaine pellets after he was arrested on New Year’s eve.
He was reportedly planning to deliver the pellets to a Kenyan while on transit in Addis Ababa, for a fee of N1m.
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He said he continued his journey to Nigeria with the remaining 10 pellets in his stomach, which according to him, he intended to sell in Lagos.
The wraps of cocaine were later excreted at 10:40am on New Year Day, 1st January.
Spokesman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Femi Babafemi, announced this in a statement on Sunday.
He also announced the arrest of a 76-year-old grandfather, Osagie Robert, in Edo State, a suspected fake security agent, Godwin Ilevbare, a.k.a Edwin Agbon, who reportedly imported drug chocolates and cookies from Canada to sell.
The septuagenarian popularly called old soldier was arrested on Friday 7 January, 2022 in Egor, Oredo area of the state for dealing in Cannabis while Godwin was nabbed during a controlled delivery of a consignment shipped into Nigeria through a courier company.
Babafemi said after the suspect signed for the consignment, undercover operatives embedded in the courier firm arrested him at his apartment in Benin City.
“The consignment, which emanated from Canada, contains Colorado brand of Cannabis concealed inside chocolates and cookies weighing 6.491kgs, while the drug cookies and chocolates weighed 5.566kgs and 0.383kg respectively,” Babafemi said.
He said in Niger State, 23-year-old Simon Richard, a 500-level student of the Department of Agric Economics and Extension, Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna was arrested at Gidan Kwano Talba road, Minna, with different quantities of Loud and Tramadol on Thursday 6th January, while in Benue State, a 21-year-old lady, Shidoo Ben was arrested with 14 pinches of crack cocaine at Jada Hotel, Otukpo on Friday 7th January.
She had travelled from Abuja to sell the drug in Benue.
This is even as a raid in Jigbele Lota camp, Owo area of Ondo state led to the recovery of 598kgs cannabis and the arrest of Chukwuemeka Azi on Thursday 6th January.
In Ogun State, two suspects: Mrs. Ajoke Samuel, 60, and Ogundairo Taye, 37, were arrested in Itaka and Odo Eran areas of Abeokuta North with different quantities of cannabis sativa, just as Ibrahim Adamu and Yahaya Mohammed were nabbed with 81kgs cannabis along Ilorin-Jebba expressway on Tuesday 4th January.
In Plateau State, three siblings: Emmanuel Ngyang Jajoang; Timothy Ngyang Jajoang and Markus Ngyang Jajoang were arrested on Thursday 6th January at Kwakwi village, Riyom LGA with different quantities of cannabis and a locally made pistol.
