NDLEA Intercepts Suspected Drug Traffickers With 1.8 Kilogram of Cocaine in Ogun
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted in Ogun state, two suspected member of an international drug trafficking syndicate.
The suspect, Sunday Michael Owoborodo, and Valentine Anene were picked up by the anti-narcotic operatives with 1.8 kilogram of substance suspected to be Cocaine.
NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babfemi, said they were arrested at Eridu Orita on Thursday, last week.
Babafemi said Valentine was being prepared to travel with the drug to Qatar same day.
He said the suspects were also arrested with an electronic weighing scale.
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has declared an ex-beauty queen, Ms. Aderinoye Queen Christmas, also known as Ms. Queen Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, wanted after she fled her Lekki, Lagos residence.
NDLEA operatives raided her apartment at Oral Estate, Lekki, on Wednesday, 24th January, following credible intelligence that she was involved in illicit substances.
NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi said, The suspect was Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture 2015/2016 and founder of the Queen Christmas Foundation.
Recovered from her home during the search, witnessed by estate officials, were 606 grams of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, an electronic weighing scale, large quantities of drug packing plastics, a black RAV 4 SUV marked Lagos KSF 872 GQ, and her picture frame, among others.
The NDLEA also arrested a Brazil returnee, Udechukwu Ekene Theophilus, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja, Lagos, for ingesting 60 large wraps of cocaine.
The suspect, arrested during the inward clearance of passengers on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil, via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the D-Arrival Hall of the Lagos airport on Sunday, 21st January 2024, initially refused to undergo a body scan, raising health concerns in a desperate bid to evade arrest.
Babafemi stated, “When he was offered other options, he accepted to be placed on excretion observation.
Shortly after he was ushered into the NDLEA observatory, he excreted the first set of cocaine pellets, after which he expelled a total of 60 wraps of the class A drug weighing 1.279 kilograms in five excretions.
In his statement, Udechukwu claimed he ingested the consignment in Brazil and was to discharge everything at the airport in Addis Ababa but could only excrete 15 pellets, which he handed over to another member of his syndicate before his connecting flight to Nigeria was called.
