Anambra state based-businessman, Ibeanusi Nosike arrested by NDLEA
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a businessman who allegedly excreted 68 wraps of cocaine at the local wings of Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja, Lagos.
The NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi said in a statement on Sunday in Abuja that the Onitsha, Anambra state based-businessman, Ibeanusi Nosikeexcreted the cocaine after 12 days of excretion observation.
Babafemi said that the 36-year-old Nosike was arrested in the early hours of Thursday, August 8, at the old domestic terminal of the Lagos airport.
This, he said, was while attempting to board the first flight out of Lagos to Abuja where he was scheduled to join a Qatar Airways flight to Vietnam at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja at about 10 am the same day.
The suspect who came under NDLEA surveillance following intelligence had arrived in Lagos from his base in Onitsha, Anambra state the previous day, Aug. 7.
“The suspect lodged in a hotel where he swallowed the 68 wraps of cocaine before heading to the airport for a 6:30 am flight the following morning.
“He was thereafter intercepted by NDLEA operatives who moved him into excretion observation where he spent the next 12 days excreting the cocaine pellets weighing 1.282 kilograms,” he said.
Meanwhile, another Vietnam-bound businessman, 54-year-old Paul Mbadugha had been arrested by the NDLEA operatives at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja on Aug. 12.
Babafemi said that Mbadugha was arrested during the outward clearance of Qatar Airways flight QR 1432 to Hanoi, Vietnam via Doha after he tested positive for ingestion of cocaine.
