Abuja, Dec. 29, 2024 – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 48-year-old businessman, Orizu Ifeanyi Arthur, for ingesting 74 wraps of heroin and cocaine while attempting to board a flight from Abuja Airport to France at Abuja airport.
Femi Babafemi, the Spokesman for the NDLEA, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.
He said Orizu was arrested at the boarding gate of the airport on Dec. 22,2024 during the outward clearance of passengers on Air France.
He was taken into custody for observation during which he excreted 74 wraps of the Class A drugs over a period of seven days.
In his statement, Orizu claimed he owned a shop at Balogun market on Lagos Island where he sells school and travelling bags.
Orizu said he was promised 3,000 Euros to deliver the consignment of drugs in Paris. and left Lagos for the Abuja airport to connect his Air France flight to Paris to escape detection.
The statement also said the NDLEA operatives at the Marine Command intercepted two boats loaded with 1,960 kilograms of Ghanaian Loud, a strong strain of cannabis at the Eleko beach in Lekki area of Lagos State, on Dec. 24, 2024.
It said six foreign nationals who brought the consignments from Ghana were arrested during the operation.
They included two Ghanaians, Godsway John and Freedom Kelvin, as well as four Beninese: Chegoun Hounsou, Gadabor Nyameto, Adantg Sasa and Ayao Kayivi.
The NDLEA In Katsina state also arrested a suspect, Ibrahim Shaibu, for being in possession of 40 album-size parcels of compressed cannabis sativa weighing 35kg on Christmas day at Central Motor Park, Katsina, while another suspect Umar Ahmed was nabbed along Zaria-Malumfashi road, Katsina with 27 parcels of same psychoactive substance weighing 13.5kg on 28th December.
A 21-year-old suspect Kosisochukwu Ozigbo was also arrested at new Lagos Road Benin City, Edo state, when the area was raided on Dec. 23, 2024 by NDLEA operatives.
Some items recovered from the suspect included 32,490 pills of tramadol 225mg, 200mg and 100mg; 936 bottles of codeine-based syrup and various quantities of other opioids. (GBN)
