NDLEA Grabs Man with Liquid Cocaine at Abuja Airport

By Adedapo Adesanya

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have apprehended one Mr Okeke Adolphus Anayochukwu with black liquid cocaine at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

This was disclosed in a statement on Sunday by the Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi.

According to the statement, the 52-year-old father of four, who claimed to be a businessman, selling children’s wares, was arrested with 20.75 kilograms of the black liquid cocaine on Tuesday, March 15, upon his arrival at the Abuja airport onboard a Qatar Airways flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil through Doha, Qatar to Abuja.

The liquid was discovered after the officers searched his luggage stuffed with six smaller bags containing 32 packs of facial products. Upon further examination, the items were confirmed to have contained cocaine.

Mr Anayochukwu claimed to have met the person who gave him the consignment to deliver in Nigeria for a fee of N2 million at a drinking joint in Brazil.

The agency also recovered different quantities of various drugs and arrested suspects in other operations across the country.

Three persons identified as Mr Tony Samson, Mr Paul Adamu, and Mr Reuben Waziri were arrested in Kaduna on Friday, March 18, with 18,380 tablets of Tramadol, and 12,500 tablets of Diazepam and Exol-5 tablets.

In Anambra, NDLEA operatives on Thursday, March 17, intercepted a bus with reg. No AGU 460 ZW, at Obosi bridge heading to Aba, Abia State from Onitsha. Upon search, seven and a half jumbo sacks of cannabis weighing 362kg were recovered while the driver, Ifeanyi Anyamele admitted to being the owner of the drug exhibits.

The previous day (March 16), narcotic officers in Ogun State recovered 865.2kg of cannabis Sativa around Otapele-Obada road in Imeko-Afon LGA.

The consignment was brought in from the Benin Republic on motorbikes for onward transportation to Lagos and Abeokuta. On the same day, operatives in the state arrested one Bello Ibrahim with 312.4kg of Cannabis Sativa at Ogere tollgate, Ikenne LGA.