The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested an ex-convict, Onyeka Charles Madukolu at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos.
NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, saying that the 44-year-old man was nabbed for importing 5.90 kilograms of cocaine concealed in cans of deodorants and ladies’ lip gloss into Nigeria.
“Onyeka who was sentenced to seven years imprisonment in Ethiopia for drug trafficking offences and released from prison in 2020, was again arrested on Friday 16th September 2022 at the Lagos airport on his return from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Addis Ababa on an Ethiopian Airlines flight,” Babafemi said.
According to the anti-narcotic agency, the suspect – a father of two kids, one each from a Nigerian woman and a Brazilian lady – said he was in the motor spare parts business before going into the criminal trade.
Charles, an indigene of Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State, told NDLEA officials that he was expecting to be paid an N2 million on the successful delivery of the illicit drug in Nigeria.
Similarly, another suspected trafficker, Chukwu Kingsley was apprehended on Tuesday, September 15 on his way to Rome, Italy via an Asky Airline flight.
The 49-year-old suspect, who hails from Oru West Local Government Area of Imo State, was said to have concealed among food condiments 11,460 tablets of tramadol 225mg with a gross weight of 5.7kg and 39 bottles of codeine syrup.
Also at the Lagos airport, a freight agent, Lawal Adeyemi was arrested the same day for attempting to export some sachets of lexotan among other non-controlled drugs to Liberia, while operatives equally seized 593.90 kilograms of khat leaf at the NAHCO import shed of the airport on Thursday 15th Sept. after a joint examination of the cargo by a combined team of security agencies.
Credit: channelstv.com
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