The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Sunday said its officials thwarted what it described as a desperate attempt by a woman to export large consignments of cocaine to Iran at the Port Harcourt International Airport in Rivers State.
NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said the consignments were concealed in the private part, stomach, and false bottom of the handbag of the suspect, identified as Ihensekhien Miracle Obehi.
Babafemi said that the suspect, who was dressed in a hijab to beat security checks, was intercepted at the departure hall of the Port Harcourt airport on Sunday, May 3, 2025, while trying to board a Qatar Airline flight to Iran via Doha, following credible intelligence.
He disclosed that during a search on Obehi, she was found to have inserted three wraps of cocaine in her private part, and two large parcels hidden in false compartments of her handbag, while she swallowed 67 pellets of the Class A drug.
As a result, she was said to have been placed under excretion observation, and after four excretions that lasted days, she expelled the 67 wraps of the substance in her stomach.
In a related operation, the NDLEA said its operatives at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, on Friday, May 9, intercepted a 22-year-old British national, Campell Kaizra Kofi Johannes Slifer, coming from Thailand through Doha on Qatar Airways flight with two suitcases loaded with 35 parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis weighing 37.60kg.
