Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 48-year-old businessman, Orizu Ifeanyi Arthur, while attempting to board an Air France flight 844 from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, to Paris, France for ingesting 74 wraps of heroin and cocaine.
Orizu was arrested at the boarding gate of the Abuja airport on Sunday December 22, 2024, during the outward clearance of passengers on Air France.
The spokesman of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in a statement in Abuja, said when he was pulled aside for a body scan, Orizu turned down the request claiming his medical condition wouldn’t allow him.
“He was thereafter taken into custody for excretion observation during which he excreted a total of 74 wraps of the Class A drugs over a period of seven days.
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“In his statement, Orizu claimed he owns a shop at Balogun market, Lagos Island where he sells school and travelling bags, and that he was promised 3,000 euros upon successful delivery of the consignment in Paris. He left his base in Lagos for the Abuja airport to connect his Air France flight to Paris, hoping to escape detection,” Babafemi said.
In another interdiction effort, operatives of the Marine Command of the agency at 2:30am on Christmas Eve, intercepted two boats loaded with 1,960kgs of Ghanaian Loud, a strong strain of cannabis at the Eleko beach in Lekki area of Lagos.
Six foreign nationals who brought the consignments from Ghana were arrested during the operation.
They include two Ghanaians, Godsway John, 38; and Freedom Kelvin, 33; and four Beninese, Chegoun Hounsou, 23; Gadabor Nyameto, 47; Adantg Sasa, 34; and Ayao Kayivi, 21.
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