Saudi-bound businesswoman has excreted 80 pellets of Cocaine at Abuja airport.
Gatekeepers News reports that operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have nabbed a businesswoman, Adisa Olayinka heading to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for Umrah (Lesser Hajj) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja for ingesting 80 pellets of cocaine.
NDLEA’s Spokesman, Femi Babafemi in a statement said Olayinka was subsequently taken into custody where she excreted 80 pellets of the illicit drug between Wednesday, November 24, and Saturday, November 27.
She was arrested at the boarding screening area of the airport during an outward clearance of Qatar Airways flight 1418.
The 46-year-old who lives in Ibafo, Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria hails from Ilorin, in Ilorin East Local Government Area of Kwara State, North-Central Nigeria.
According to the statement, Olayinka during interviews claimed that she saved N2.5million for one year to buy the drugs in bits from six different people at Akala, Mushin area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.
The statement read further, “The suspect further said she was trading in clothes but had to borrow N1million from three persons to make up the money used to buy the drugs, adding that she spent another N1million to renew her passport, visa, and buy return flight tickets.
“She said she was encouraged to traffic the drugs by a woman she met during her last Umrah trip to Saudi Arabia in 2019. She added that she needed to raise N7million for In Vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment due to pressure from people because she’s been married for 28 years without a child due to fertility challenges.”
In a related development, another trafficker, Inusa Abdulrazaki was arrested with 101 wraps of Heroin weighing 1.3 kilograms on Friday, November 19 at Gate C -Departure hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos on his way to Italy via Istanbul on Turkish Airlines. The drugs were concealed inside cassava flour popularly called garri.
On the following day (Saturday, November 20), the NDLEA operatives similarly intercepted an abandoned consignment of khat 17.90kg at the airport during a routine cargo search at NAHCO export shed.
The Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa who commended the officers and men of the NAIA and MMIA commands for their vigilance and steadfastness urged them to always stay two steps ahead of the drug cartels.
