The
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency said a suspected drug trafficker
apprehended at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos has vomited 94
wraps of heroin.
The
suspect, 37-year-old Nnaemeka Chinedu, an auto parts dealer in Lagos, was
arrested during the screening of passengers on a Rwanda Airline from Uganda.
Shortly
after he was placed under observation, he vomited the narcotics weighing
1.59kg.
According
to the spokesperson for the agency, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, this is one of the
largest quantities of drugs ingested by a drug suspect arrested at the Lagos
airport in recent times.
Chinedu
said he was paid N450,000 for smuggling the drug.
“I
was desperate. This is my first time of smuggling drugs. I have been selling
auto parts in Lagos for the past 15 years but things have been very rough with
me financially. I was paid in Uganda to smuggle the drugs,” Nnaemeka said.
Also
arrested was a 57-year-old jewellery importer, Okonkwo Godwin, who hid 750
grammes of cocaine in his boxer shorts.
He
was also arrested at the MMIA during the inward screening of passengers on a
South African Airline flight from Brazil.
“The
suspects are currently being interrogated for illegally importing narcotics
into the country. Okonkwo Godwin was caught with one wrap of cocaine in his
boxer shorts and another inside his bag all weighing 750 grammes,” NDLEA
commander at the Lagos airport, Ahmadu Garba, said.
Godwin
told narcotic investigators that he smuggled drugs because of his numerous
financial problems.
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