The Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) has intercepted two suspected drug traffickers making an attempt to smuggle heroin into Nigeria by means of the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport (MMIA) in Lagos and the Port Harcourt Worldwide Airport in Rivers State, excreting a complete of 125 wraps of heroin.
In line with an NDLEA assertion on Sunday, officers on the Port Harcourt airport arrested Onyekwonike Elochuckwu Sylvanus, who additionally carried a Sierra Leonean passport underneath the title Kargbo Mohamed Foday.
The 30-year-old suspect was caught whereas arriving on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha, routed by means of Abuja to Port Harcourt.
NDLEA operatives found he had ingested illicit medication, and through commentary, he excreted 62 wraps of heroin, weighing 1.348 kilograms.
“He was subsequently taken for physique scan which confirmed he ingested illicit medication and thereafter positioned underneath excretion commentary throughout which he expelled a complete of 62 wraps of heroin in 5 excretions, weighing 1.348 kilograms.
Investigation reveals Onyekwonike Elochuckwu Sylvanus (alias Kargbo Mohamed Foday) alternates his two identities for various drug trafficking missions between Thailand, Pakistan, Iran and West African international locations. He claimed to have gone full time into the illicit drug commerce in 2017 when his clothes and shoe enterprise went down,” the company acknowledged.
A separate operation on the Lagos airport led to the arrest of James Herbert Chinoso, 48, who arrived from Madagascar through Addis Ababa on an Ethiopian Airways flight.
A physique scan confirmed he had ingested illicit medication, resulting in the excretion of 63 wraps of heroin.
“After a physique scan confirmed illicit drug in his system, he was positioned underneath excretion commentary throughout which he ingested 63 wraps of heroin with a complete weight of 909 grams,” the company acknowledged.
NDLEA disclosed that Chinoso had left Lagos for Madagascar on January 26 and returned after per week. He claimed he turned to drug trafficking after his telephone equipment enterprise in Liberia collapsed.
The anti-narcotics company additionally intercepted two parcels containing 2.82 kilograms of Loud, an artificial pressure of hashish imported from the U.S., at a courier firm in Lagos.
