The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 44-year-old businessman, Ezemokwe Chukwuebuka Christian, at Port Harcourt International Airport for ingesting 53 wraps of cocaine.
Ezemokwe was boarding a Qatar Airways flight to Tehran in Iran on 7 June when a body scan raised suspicion.
He was placed under observation and subsequently excreted a total of 53 cocaine pellets weighing one point one seven kilograms in six separate sessions. The suspect said he entered the drug trade two years ago and frequently travelled between West Africa and Iran.
The arrest came nearly two weeks after another trader, Chinedu Leonard Okigbo, was apprehended at Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano with 65 pellets of cocaine in his stomach.
Meanwhile, in Cross River state, NDLEA operatives raided a warehouse in Obereakai and recovered two thousand, six hundred and eighty-seven kilograms of skunk.
Brigadier General Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), chairman of NDLEA, commended his officers for their diligence and reiterated the agency’s resolve to pursue a balance between reducing drug supply and demand.
