The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have arrested a Vietnam-bound businessman, Paul Okwuy Mbadugha, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja after he tested positive for ingestion of cocaine.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday.
He said that the 54-year-old suspect was intercepted at the boarding gate of the Abuja airport on Monday, August 12, 2024, during the outward clearance of Qatar Airways flight QR 1432 to Hanoi, Vietnam via Doha.
According to Babafemi, Mbadugha excreted a total of 88 wraps of the illicit drug with a gross weight of 1.710 kilograms after four days under excretion observation.
In his statement, the suspect was said to have claimed that he’s a Lagos-based businessman and was given the cocaine pellets to swallow by a friend in Isolo area of the state for onward delivery in Vietnam for a fee of $2,000.
In the same vein, NDLEA said its officers at the export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos, have intercepted a shipment of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis weighing 800 grams 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.
