A 59-year-old businessman, Ezeokoli Sylva, who has spent 35 years in Brazil, , has been arrested with 700grams of cocaine buried in his abdomen, however was found by operatives of the Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company (NDLEA), on the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos.
The Company’s Spokesperson, Mr. Femi Babafemi, in a press release yesterday mentioned the suspect was arrested on Friday, November 29, on the E-Arrival corridor of the Lagos airport upon his return from Sao Paulo, Brazil on Ethiopia Airways flight through Addis Ababa.
When he was taken for physique scan, the outcome confirmed that the suspect had international objects hid in his abdomen. Babafemi mentioned consequently, he was positioned underneath excretion commentary throughout which he expelled 29 wraps of gear that examined optimistic to cocaine, weighing 700grams.
In his assertion, the suspect claimed he operates an African retailer in Brazil the place he sells provisions, footwear and garments, he added that he purchased the illicit consignment in Sao Paulo to resell in Nigeria with a view to elevating substantial capital to spice up his enterprise.
In the meantime, NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Investigation and Common Investigation (DOGI), on Tuesday, November 26, intercepted two consignments containing cocaine and pentazocine injection, going to the UK through a courier firm in Lagos.
Whereas the cocaine weighing 200grams was hid in native materials, 40 ampoules of pentazocine injection weighing 110grams had been hidden in cartons.
Whereas in Kano, NDLEA operatives on Thursday, November 28, arrested three suspects: Jamilu Adamu, 38; Umar Musa, 32; and Bunu Ali, 27, with 2,000 ampoules of pentazocine injection and three,135,000 tablets exol-5 at Gadar Tamburawa, Zaria highway.
No fewer than 2, 120 kilograms of Ghanaian Loud, a robust pressure of hashish produced in Ghana had been intercepted by NDLEA operatives on the Ilesan seashore, Lagos on Thursday, November28.
A suspect, Onibogi Muftau was arrested in reference to the seizure whereas 4 automobiles that had been to convey the shipments from the water entrance had been additionally recovered.
This got here on the heels of the seizure of 472kg of the identical psychoactive substance at Idi-Iroko, Imeko space of Ogun State on Monday, November 25.
In Edo State, two suspects: Monday Onyenemue, 60, and Evans Omogiede, 42, had been on Thursday, November 28, arrested and 185.6kg of hashish in addition to a Toyota Previa bus marked BEN 06XL conveying the consignment had been recovered throughout an intelligence-led raid by NDLEA operatives at Ukuwague Avenue, Benin metropolis.
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