India Bound Fake Couple Excrete 3.32 Kilogrammes Of Cocaine At Lagos Airport

An India bound fake couple, have ingested 184 wraps of substance suspected to be cocaine, weighing 3.32 kilogrammes.

100 kilogrammes out of the substance was concealed in the private part of the woman.

The man allegedly excreted 82 wraps, weighing 1.822 kilogrammes, while the woman excreted 101 wraps, weighing 1.50 kilogrammes.

Spokesman of the national drug law enforcement agency (NDLEA), Femi Babafemi, named the couple who were intercepted at the lagos airport as Onyebuchi Ilonzeh and Nonyelum Ilonzeh.

Babafemi said both of them who claimed to be a couple heading for medical treatment, were stopped by NDLEA operatives last august 1, while about to board an Ethiopian airline flight to India.

He said scan confirmed that they ingested the drug, and were placed on the excretion facility of ndlea at the airport, after which they excreted the drug.

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ALSO, NDLEA operatives of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation (DOGI) attached to courier companies in Lagos have intercepted various quantities of dextromethorphan mixed with heroin; methamphetamine; Dimethyl Sulfone and Cannabis concealed in different objects going to Europe.

While 272 grammes of dextromethorphan mixed with heroin going to Greece were recovered from white neck beads; 665 grammes of cannabis being shipped to Hong Kong were hidden in bars of Dudu Osun black bathing soap; with 261 grammes of dimethyl sulfone going to New Zealand hidden in reels of weaving threads and 1.5kgs of methamphetamine also going to New Zealand neatly packed in an MP3 player after all the parts were removed and the substance stuffed as replacement.
Other illicit drugs were seized, and suspects arrested in Kano, Borno and Anambra states within the last seven days.
In his reaction to the seizures and arrests of the past week, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa (Retd) commended the officers and men of MMIA, Kano, FCT and Borno Commands of the Agency as well as those of DOGI for their diligence, vigilance and professionalism in the discharge of their responsibilities. He charged them and their compatriots across the country not to rest on their oars.