Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 38-year-old drug trafficking suspect, Okafor Anthony.
Gatekeepers News reports that the suspect was arrested at Mallam Aminu International Airport while attempting to board a Qatar Airlines flight to Iran via Doha with 76 wraps of cocaine in his stomach.
NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi who confirmed the arrest through a statement released on Sunday revealed that the drug trafficking suspect was arrested last Sunday.
The statement added, “After three days in excretion observation, Okafor excreted 76 pellets of the ingested cocaine weighing 1.267kg.”
Operatives of NDLEA on patrol along the Okene-Lokoja-Abuja expressway in Kogi state on Tuesday 17th September also recovered 700,000 pills of exol-5 coming from Lagos for distribution in Kano and Kaduna.
In addition, a 23-year-old suspect Udemefuna Chibuike was arrested by operatives on Friday 20th September along Mokwa-Jebba road, Niger state, in possession of 49,000 tablets of tramadol, 20,000 tablets of diazepam, 100 ampoules of tramadol injection and 50 bottles of cough syrup with codeine.
Also, operatives of the agency apprehended a suspect named Ogochukwu Paul, 33, who was conveying a total of 451 blocks of cannabis, weighing 213kg to a notorious drug haven in Borikiri.
