Abuja, May 11, 2025 – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a woman, Ihensekhien Miracle Obehi, who concealed large consignments of cocaine in her private part, stomach and false bottom of her handbag at the Port Harcourt International Airport while attempting to travel to Iran
Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA Spokesman, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.
The statement said Obehi, who was dressed in hijab to beat security checks, was intercepted at the departure hall of the Port Harcourt airport on Sunday May 3, 2025, while trying to board a Qatar Airline flight to Iran via Doha following credible intelligence.
It said the woman had inserted three wraps of cocaine in her private part, and two large parcels hidden in false compartments of her handbag while she swallowed 67 pellets of the Class A drug.
She was placed under excretion observation and after four excretions that lasted days, she expelled the 67 wraps of the substance in her stomach.
Obehi said she was to swallow 70 pellets of cocaine, but after ingesting 67 pieces she could no longer swallow the remaining three and decided to insert them into her private part.
According to the NDLEA, the total weight of the three consignments hidden in different parts of her is 2.523 kilograms.
The NDLEA also said its operatives at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos on Friday May 9, 2025, intercepted a 22-year-old British national, Campell Kaizra Kofi Johannes Slifer at the Lagos airport with two suitcases loaded with 35 parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis weighing 37.60kg.
It said Slifer was coming from Thailand through Doha on Qatar Airways flight.
Campell, who claimed he had twice been convicted in the UK for drug trafficking and robbery, said he was recruited in London to travel to Thailand to pick the illicit consignment and bring the same to Nigeria.
The NDLEA also said its operatives in Niger State, acting on intelligence on Wednesday May 7, intercepted a fuel truck marked ABJ 693 XU and three other vehicles loaded with 246 bags of skunk, a strain of cannabis with a combined weight of 3, 047 kilograms along Suleja-Kaduna road.
It said that four suspects arrested with the exhibits include: Christopher Onyema, 47; Benedict Etineruba Young, 54; Chukwudi Ujue Jerry, 30; and Mohammed Abdullahi Danasabe.
Apart from the fuel truck, three other vehicles recovered from the suspects include: Honda Odyssey bus marked YAB 667 CZ; Gulf bus with registration number GWA 125 TQ and,Honda Odyssey bus marked ABJ 230 CN.
