A 67-year-old drug trafficker, Chukwuemeka Clement, has been arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria, after ingesting 100 wraps of cocaine.
Spokesman of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, said on Sunday in Abuja that Clement was arrested on Tuesday 3rd October during the inward clearance of passengers on the Ethiopian Airline flight 951 from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He was taken for a body scan, which revealed multiple pellets in his stomach.
Clement excreted a total of 100 wraps of cocaine weighing 2.195 kilograms in four excretions. He told investigators that he had spent 30 years in Brazil, Ethiopia, and Thailand, and was once married but lost his wife without a child.
“While under observation, he excreted a total of 100 wraps of cocaine weighing 2.195kgs in four excretions. In his statement, he claimed to have spent 30 years in Brazil, Ethiopia and Thailand, while he was once married but lost his wife without a child. He added that it was why he decided to go into drug trafficking to raise enough money to marry a new wife and start life afresh,” Babafemi said.
On the same day, NDLEA operatives at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) in Kano intercepted a 45-year-old woman, Bilkisu Mohammed Bello, while she was preparing to board a Saudia Airlines flight to Saudi Arabia.
Bello confessed to investigators that she had been given pellets of cocaine to swallow before her flight, and that they were kept in a house in the Farawa area of Kano. When she led NDLEA officers to the house, they recovered 52 wraps of the illicit substance with a total weight of 767 grams.
