Operatives of the Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company have arrested Udechukwu Ekene Theophilus, a returnee from Brazil, on the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport in Lagos. Udechukwu ingested 60 packages of cocaine, a complete of 1,279 kilograms, throughout a flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
This was disclosed in a press release signed by the Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, and posted on the company's web site on Sunday.
The assertion learn: “Operators of the Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company, NDLEA, have arrested a returnee from Brazil, Udechukwu Ekene Theophilus, on the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos, for ingesting 60 massive wraps of cocaine.
“The suspect who was arrested through the customs clearance of passengers on an Ethiopia Airways flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil by way of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on the D Arrivals Corridor of Lagos Airport on Sunday, January 21, 2024, initially refused to bear a physique scan, which worsened his well being in a determined try and keep away from arrest.
“Nevertheless, when different choices had been introduced to him, he accepted being positioned on excretion remark and shortly after being led to the NDLEA Observatory, he excreted the primary set of cocaine pellets, after which he excreted a complete of 60 wrappers of the Class A drug . weighing 1,279 kilograms in 5 excretions.”
NDLEA mentioned Udechukwu in his assertion claimed that he took the consignment in Brazil and needed to unload all the pieces at Addis Ababa airport however might solely excrete 15 pellets which he handed over to a different member of his syndicate earlier than his connecting flight to Nigeria known as.
As well as, NDLEA operatives have recovered 12 cartons of Tramadol weighing 385.40kg from an overstayed cargo on the SAHCO import warehouse at Lagos Airport. The tramadol arrived in two batches on KLM Royal Dutch Airline flights from Karachi, Pakistan, between July 27 and August 1, 2023.
In separate operations, NDLEA seized 822 kilos of hashish sativa in Yobe, arrested suspects in Yobe, Kogi and Kano states, and intercepted a truck carrying hashish, tramadol and diazepam drugs on the Gombe-Bauchi highway.
The company additionally acknowledged that ex-beauty queen Mrs. Aderinoye wished Queen Christmas after she escaped throughout a raid on her residence in Lekki the place hashish and drug associated objects had been discovered.
The assertion learn: “In the meantime, an ex-beauty queen, Mrs. Aderinoye Queen Christmas, often known as Mrs. Queen Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, has been declared wished by the Company after she escaped from her residence in Lekki, Lagos when NDLEA operatives raided her condo in Oral invaded. property, Lekki on Wednesday, January 24, following credible data, she is dealing in unlawful substances.
“The suspect was Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Tradition 2015/2016 and the founding father of Queen Christmas Basis.
“Recovered from her dwelling through the search witnessed by property officers embody 606 grams of Canadian Loud, an artificial pressure of hashish, an digital scale, massive portions of medication packaging in plastic, a black RAV 4 SUV marked Lagos KSF 872 GQ, and, amongst different issues, her image body.”
Members of a world drug trafficking syndicate, Sunday Michael Owoborode and Valentine Anene, had been additionally arrested in Ogun State, whereas Sunday Adediran was apprehended in Lagos with 20kg of hashish sativa.
