Brazilian returnee excretes cocaine wraps, Kwara NDLEA nabs 38 youths

Date: 2022-06-25

A Brazilian returnee, Igwedum Benson, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, with pellets of cocaine concealed in his private parts.

The NDLEA Public Relations Officer, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, said Igwedum was nabbed at the Lagos airport last Monday upon his arrival on an Ethiopian airline from Sao Paulo, Brazil, via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The statement read, “Preliminary investigations reveal that the suspect had swallowed 50 wraps of cocaine before departing Brazil and excreted 48 pellets in Addis Ababa where he handed them over to another person.

“He, however, claimed he was unable to excrete the remaining two wraps at the hotel room in Addis Ababa before boarding his flight, but later excreted them in the aircraft restroom during the flight from Ethiopia to Lagos.

“In the same vein, after three weeks of painstaking investigation and tracking, operatives of the MMIA command of NDLEA on Saturday night, June 25, arrested a drug kingpin, Onyekachi Chukwuma Macdonald, behind attempts to export 40 parcels of Methamphetamine popularly called Mkpuru Mmiri locally to London, United Kingdom, through the NAHCO export shed of the Lagos airport.

“Onyekachi was arrested at Manacola estate, in the Alakuko area of Lagos, at the weekend, three weeks after his Mkpuru Mmiri consignment weighing 2.05kilograms was intercepted at the airport and his freight agent, Peter Christopher Anikan, arrested on 7th June.

“During his interview, the suspect said he's from Ahiazu, Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State and had lived in Dubai, UAE, for 10 years before returning to Nigeria in 2019. He stated that after his return to Nigeria, he opened a phone accessory shop in Sango Otta, Ogun State, but the business collapsed.

“He then started sending cigarettes to London and decided to conceal the illicit drug in the consignment after advice by a friend.”

Meanwhile, two kingpins behind the importation of two recent drug consignments from Canada concealed in vehicle containers through the Tincan seaport in Apapa, Lagos, were arrested by NDLEA operatives.

In a related development, Commander of the NDLEA in Kwara State, Ibrahim Saidu, said the command arrested 38 youths with 53.33kg of illicit drugs and psychotropic substances in the state within the two months of his resumption of office.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

African Democratic Congress     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Bamikole Omishore     Lafiagi     Agbarere     Hassan Oyeleke     Risikat Lawal     GAMA     Special Adviser On Digital Innovation     Olota Of Odo-Owa     Olaiya Zuberu     Lanre Issa Onilu     Ibrahim Taiwo     Saeedat Aliyu     Mogaji Aare     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     Dele Belgore     KWASAA     Ishaq Abdulkarim     Rotimi Oyedepo     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     AbdulRauf Keji     Arik     Ilorin South     Hassan Saliu     Oke-Ero     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     Adebayo Salami     High Court     Yinka Aluko     Binta Abubakar Mora     Government High School Adeta     3MTT     Abdullateef Abdussalam     Seed Technologies     Bolaji Nagode     Ayobami Akanbi     Baaziki Sulaiman     Saidu Kawu     Tafida Of Kaiama     Assayomo     Bahago     Mahfouz Adedimeji     Suwa-Arabs     Ahmed     Muhammad Yahya     Tafida Of Ilorin     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     Ogidi-Oloje     Hakeem Lawal     Yaru     Illyasu Abdullahi     Mutawalle     David Adesina     Abubakar Atiku     Abdulraheem Olesin     Kamoru Kadiri     Moshood Bakare     Bankole Omishore     Akanbi-Oke     IDPU     Abdulfatai Baakini     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     Mustapha AbdulGaniyu     Principal Private Secretary     Salman Suleiman     Ibrahim Bio     Hauwa Nuru     Jeunkunu-Malete-Bani     Press Release     Apata Ajele Secondary School     Anilelerin     All Peoples Party     Shaykh Luqman Jimoh     Gaa Olobi     Budo-Egba    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

KwaraLearn     Olaiya Lawal     Yakub Lai Gobir     Tafida Of Kaiama     Rex Olawoye     Kunbi Titiloye     Agboola Babatunde     Gamji Members Association     Firdaos Amasa     Apata Ajele Secondary School     Yakub Ali-Agan     Salihu Ajibola Ajia     COVID-19 Palliatives     Rachael Obisesan     Ekiti     Yunus Oniboki     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Monkey Pox     Arca Santa     Shehu Raheem Adaramaja     Oba Abu     N-Power     Saliu Oluwole     GGDSS Pakata     Babaloja-General     Olushola Saraki     Kawu Baraje     Salihu Yahaya     Muritala Olarewaju     General Hospital     Akeem Olatunji     Plat Technologies Limited     Raimi Iyanda     Michael Nzwekwe     Yemi Sanni     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     Modibbo Kawu     KWTV     Bursary     Share     Sidikat Alaya     Onilupeju Of Ilupeju     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     Moses Rahman Popoola     Khairat Gwadabe     Gobir Organization Foundation     Millennium Development Goals     Okanlawon Taiwo     Funke Adedoyin     Ahmad Ali     Aliyu Alhassan     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     Local Government Pension Board     Special Adviser On Digital Innovation     Folorunsho Alao     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Kwara United     Kwara State Pension Board     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Femi Ogunsola     Coronavirus     Baba Issa     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Jimoh Bashir     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Kumbi Titilope     Usman Alkali Baba     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     SDP     Maimunat Oniyangi     Amusement Park     Otuka