Crime
NDLEA Arrests 50-Year-Old Businessman At Enugu Airport With 90 Wraps Of Cocaine Ingested
Osuoha was intercepted at the airport’s arrival hall during routine screening of passengers arriving from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight following months of intelligence and surveillance on him.
Abuja, Nigeria- A 50-year-old businessman, Osuoha Christian Iheanacho, has been arrested by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for allegedly ingesting 90 wraps of cocaine.
It was gathered that the arrest took place on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AIIA) in Enugu.
It was learnt that Osuoha was intercepted at the airport’s arrival hall during routine screening of passengers arriving from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight following months of intelligence and surveillance on him.
In a statement released on Sunday, by the Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, said the suspect was subsequently placed on excretion observation during which he egested 90 pellets of cocaine weighing 2.019 kilograms in seven excretions.
Babafemi explained that the suspect who operates phone and accessories business in Lagos and Gabon, Central Africa, travelled by road from Gabon to Douala, Cameroon from where he took a flight to Addis Ababa where he swallowed the pellets of cocaine while in transit and thereafter continued his journey to Enugu with Lagos as his final destination.
“He deliberately complicated his movement to distort traces of his travel history unknown to him that he has been on NDLEA watchlist for the past three months. In his statement, Osuoha said he desperately needed the money from the criminal drug trade to boost his declining phone and accessories business.
“In another well-coordinated operation carried out by a Special Operations Unit of the Agency on Thursday 21st November, head of a cocaine distribution cartel, 42-year-old Ndive Maxwell Obinna was arrested along with five of his associates at Ago Palace Way in Okota, Isolo, Lagos.
He noted that a total of 2.412 kilograms of cocaine were recovered from them.
Babafemi added that other members of the drug trafficking organization arrested along Obinna include: Okeke Gloria Ifeoma who is the syndicate’s stash keeper; Ikechebelu Emmanuel Chibuzor; Okorie Onyedikachi; Okonkwo Nnabugo Prince; and Okafor Blessing Anita.