Two drug traffickers have excreted about wraps of heroine at Abuja Airport
Nwofor Ejiogu Charles excreted 75 pellets of cocaine weighing 1.653kgs while Nwufo Charles Okwudili, 45 excreted 96 wraps of heroin he ingested with a total weight of 1.413kgs.”
Nwofor who was arrested at the Abuja airport, on Friday 6th October during the outward clearance of Qatar Airways flight QR 1432 to Doha.
NDLEA Director of Media and advocacy Mr Femi Babafemi in a statement said ” after body scan revealed he ingested cocaine, he was placed under observation during which he excreted 75 pellets of cocaine weighing 1.653kgs.
“At the point of his arrest, Nwofor who was the last passenger to board his flight offered to compromise an NDLEA officer with $3,000 to free him.”
The following day, Saturday 7th October, another trafficker, Nwufo Charles Okwudili, 45, was also arrested while attempting to board Lufthansa Airlines flight LH 0595 to Paris, France via Frankfurt, Germany.
“After being put through body scanner, he was taken into recovery room where he excreted 96 wraps of heroin he ingested with a total weight of 1.413kgs.”
Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Okene -Lokoja-Abuja expressway on Tuesday 10th October intercepted a commercial bus coming from Lagos to Kano.
A search of the bus led to the seizure of Four Million, Eight Hundred and Eighty Thousand US Dollars ($4,880,000), and Fifty-Seven Million Céfa, (CFA57,000,000) suspected to be counterfeits.
