A Canada-based Nigerian nurse and two businessmen are helping the personnel of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in their investigations in the alleged smuggling of cocaine pellets and parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos.
The Nigerian nurse based in Canada was on 4th October arrested by NDLEA officers at the Lagos airport during the inward clearance of Air France passengers from Toronto, Canada via Paris.
During a search of her luggage, a total of 70 parcels of Canadian Loud, weighing 35.70kg were recovered.
She claimed while being interviewed that she was in Nigeria to meet her boyfriend who instructed her to come with the large consignment of the highly sought-after synthetic cannabis.
A statement by the Agency’s Spokesman, Femi Babafemi sighted by MJ Concept TV News one of the suspects frequents Thailand from where he claimed to be importing fish into Nigeria. “He was arrested on Tuesday 15th October 2024, while attempting to board an Ethiopian Airline’s flight to Thailand via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.”
According to the statement, when he was taken for body scan, the result showed he ingested illicit drug which proved to be cocaine.
“As a result, he was placed under excretion observation during which he expelled five big egg-size wraps of cocaine weighing 400grams,” Femi Babafemi said in the statement.
In his statement, the 51-year-old suspect confessed that he was to be paid upon successful delivery of the drug consignment in Thailand.
He said he needed the money to boost his fish importation business.
In the same vein, NDLEA operatives at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos on Thursday 17th October intercepted a 26-year-old businessman coming from Brazil via Addis Ababa during the inward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines flight.
“His body scan revealed ingestion of illicit drug. When he was put under observation, he excreted a pellet of cocaine weighing 22 grams.
He has however confessed that he ingested 30 wraps of the illicit drug in Brazil but excreted 29 pellets in Addis Ababa, where he handed them over to another person.
The suspect disclosed that he was to be paid N2.5 million for trafficking the drug,” Babafemi stated.
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