National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested a widow and mother of four, Ajisegiri Kehinde Sidika, over her attempt to traffic 400grams of cocaine concealed in her footwear to Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
Gatekeepers News reports that the 56-year-old claimed to be a businesswoman trading in adults and children’s wears on Lagos Island.
Operatives of the NDLEA at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria intercepted her on Sunday 13th November while trying to board a Qatar Airways flight going to Saudi Arabia via Doha.
Upon a critical examination of the pair of sandals she was wearing, two parcels of cocaine weighing 400grams were recovered from them.
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In a related development, the NDLEA operatives also frustrated the attempts by a tricycle parts seller, Ayoade Kehinde Tayo to send 1kg of Tramadol 225mg and Rohypnol to Istanbul, Turkey via Cairo on an Egypt Airline flight same day.
Ayoade who was trying to hand over the drugs hidden inside a bag of food items to an intending passenger, Idowu Ayoade but was arrested before he succeeded in doing that.
Similarly, an intending passenger to Oman via Asky airline, Agbamuche Bright Nkeonye and a lady, Adeoye Oluwakemi Fatimo who accompanied him to present a bag containing varieties of foodstuffs and body lotion which were used to conceal 1.10kg Cannabis and some Rohypnol capsules were also arrested at the departure hall of the Lagos airport on Thursday 18th November.
