A drug user, Paul Okwuy Mbadugha has excreted 88 wraps of cocaine he egested after four days he was placed under excretion observation in a failed business deal, which would have earn him $2,000.
Operatives of the the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) blew the lid at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja after the crime suspect tested positive to ingestion of cocaine 12th August.
The illicit drug weighing 1.710 kilograms, the spokesman for the anti-narcotic Agency, Femi Babafemi said this on Sunday in a statement.
Babafemi stated that the 54-year-old Vietnam-bound businessman was arrested during the outward clearance of Qatar Airways flight QR 1432 to Hanoi, Vietnam via Doha.
He said the suspect, was given the cocaine pellets to swallow by a friend at Isolo area of the State for onward delivery in Vietnam for a fee of (Two Thousand dollar) $2,000.
In his statement, he claimed admitted NDLEA that he’s a Lagos based businessman and was given the cocaine pellets to swallow by a friend at Isolo area of the State for onward delivery in Vietnam for a fee of $2,000.
Elsewhere at the export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos, the NDLEA officers, intercepted a shipment of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis weighing 800 grams.
The consignment was concealed in noodles going to Congo. A follow up operation at the Alaba International market, Ojo area of Lagos led to the arrest of the sender of the consignment, Nnamani Sunday Sunny, who deals in GSM handsets.
Meanwhile, the NDLEA also recorded breakthroughs in drug war in the past week across
its Commands Federal Capital Territory, Kogi, Ekiti, Kano, Enugu, Niger and Ogun State where
70-year-old Fidelis Egede and three others for alleged drug crimes.
The suspects, Samuel Sylvanus, 31; Jato Samson, 33; and Francis Blessing, 28, were nabbed when a cannabis plantation on six hectares was raided by NDLEA operatives in Alaka village, Ogun State.
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