Kano Airport Sees Arrest Of 38-Year-Old Drug Trafficker By NDLEA

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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested a 38-year-old drug trafficking suspect, Okafor Anthony, at Mallam Aminu International Airport while he attempted to board a Qatar Airlines flight to Iran via Doha. He was found to have ingested 76 wraps of cocaine.

NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, confirmed the arrest, which took place last Sunday. According to the statement, after three days of observation, Okafor excreted a total of 76 pellets of cocaine, weighing 1.267 kg.

In Kogi State, NDLEA officers on patrol along the Okene-Lokoja-Abuja expressway recovered 700,000 pills of Exol-5 on September 17, which were en route from Lagos to Kano and Kaduna. Additionally, on September 20, operatives arrested 23-year-old Udemefuna Chibuike along the Mokwa-Jebba road in Niger State, where he was found in possession of 49,000 tablets of tramadol, 20,000 tablets of diazepam, 100 ampoules of tramadol injection, and 50 bottles of cough syrup containing codeine.

Moreover, on September 18, NDLEA officers intercepted 451 blocks of cannabis weighing 213 kg along Azikiwe Road in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. A suspect, Ogochukwu Paul, 33, was apprehended while transporting the drugs to a known drug hotspot in Borikiri.