NDLEA arrests 67-year-old at airport for ingesting 100 wraps of cocaine

By Biola Adebayo On Oct 8, 2023

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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 67-year-old trafficker, Chukwuemeka Clement, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja for ingesting 100 wraps of cocaine, a criminal enterprise he claimed he ventured into to raise enough money to marry a new wife and start life afresh after wasting 30 years of his life in Brazil, Ethiopia and Thailand.

SOLACEBASE reports that Chukwuemeka was arrested on Tuesday 3rd October during the inward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines flight 951 from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and taken for a body scan, which revealed multiple pellets in his stomach.

A statement issued by Femi Babafemi, NDLEA, Director, Media & Advocacy, on Sunday, in Abuja, said while under observation, he excreted a total of 100 wraps of cocaine weighing 2.195 kilograms in four excretions.

‘’In his statement, he claimed to have spent 30 years in Brazil, Ethiopia, and Thailand, while he was once married, but lost his wife and without a child. He added that was why he decided to go into drug trafficking to raise enough money to marry a new wife and start life afresh,’’ the statement said.

Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives on Sunday 1st October raided Obi camp in Owan West LGA, Edo state where 30 sacks of skunk weighing 300kgs and concealed in charcoal were evacuated from an old dilapidated mud house.

Similarly, two cannabis farms measuring 1.179065 hectares at Igbanke forest in Orhiowon local government area of the state were identified and destroyed on Friday 6th October while four suspects: Tersoo Zaria, 28; Ifeanyi Osai, 53; Moses David, 19, and Daniel Gabriel, 20, were arrested.

With the same vigor, the various commands of the Agency across the country continued with the War Against Drug Abuse, WADA, advocacy campaign in the past week. Some of them include WADA sensitization lecture for students and teachers of Igbonnibi High School, Ila Orangun, Osun State; WADA sensitization lecture at Royal Ambassador Secondary School, Makurdi, Benue State; WADA sensitization lecture at Ilora Baptist Grammar School, Ilora, Oyo state, and LGA WADA sensitization lecture for students of Beth-Root Model Secondary School, Onitsha, Anambra state.

While commending the officers and men of the NAIA, MAKIA, Ogun, Oyo, Edo, and Gombe Commands of the Agency for their outstanding feats in the past week, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) equally applauded their counterparts in all the commands across the country for intensifying their WADA advocacy lectures thus creating a fair balance between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction activities.