Two Suspected Drug Traffickers Excrete 171 Pellets of Substance Suspected To Be Cocaine and Heroin
Two suspected international drug traffickers have excreted a total of 171 wraps of substance suspected to be drug at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
One of the suspects, Nwafor Charles was arrested last October 6, while undergoing outward clearance for the Qatar Airways Flight to Doha.
After a body scan, the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) detected he had ingested substance suspected to be cocaine.
NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, alleged that the suspect after he was placed under observation, excreted 75 pellets of cocaine weighing 1.65 kilogram.
Another suspect, Nwafor Okudili was also arrested the following day, at the Abuja Airport while about to board Lufthansa airline flight to Paris through Frankfurt.
Babafemi said Okudili was placed under observation after the scan detected he had swallowed drugs
According to him, the suspect under observation excreted 96 pellets of heroin, weighing 1.41 kilograms.
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At the Abuja airport, operatives on Friday 6th October arrested a drug trafficker, Nwofor Ejiogu Charles, 45, during the outward clearance of Qatar Airways flight QR 1432 to Doha.
“After body scan revealed he ingested cocaine, he was placed under observation during which he excreted 75 pellets of cocaine weighing 1.653kgs.
“At the point of his arrest, Nwofor who was the last passenger to board his flight offered to compromise an NDLEA officer with $3,000 to free him”.
The following day, Saturday 7th October, another trafficker, Nwufo Charles Okwudili, 45, was also arrested while attempting to board Lufthansa Airlines flight LH 0595 to Paris, France via Frankfurt, Germany.
“After being put through body scanner, he was taken into recovery room where he excreted 96 wraps of heroin he ingested with a total weight of 1.413kgs.
“Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Okene -Lokoja-Abuja expressway on Tuesday 10th October intercepted a commercial bus coming from Lagos to Kano.
“A search of the bus led to the seizure of Four Million, Eight Hundred and Eighty Thousand US Dollars ($4,880,000), and Fifty-Seven Million Céfa, (CFA57,000,000) suspected to be counterfeits.
“In Sokoto, the Federal High Court in the state capital presided over by Justice Ahmad Mahmud sentenced an acting district head, Alhaji Umar Mohammed (aka Dan Bala) to five and a half years in jail on four count charges of possession and dealing in 436.38kgs cannabis and 7kgs psychotropic drugs brought against him by NDLEA in October 2022.
He was convicted and sentenced to two years on each of counts 1 and 2 with an option of N1million fine, and eight months on each of counts 3 and 4 without an option of fine.
