Two businessmen arrested by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, for cocaine ingestion have both excreted 193 pellets of the illicit drug after three days in observatory custody.

The traffickers – Onoh Ebere, 49, and Christian Ifeanyi Ogbuji, 47 – were intercepted at the Abuja airport on Wednesday, May 10, upon their arrival from Uganda via Addis Ababa, onboard Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 951.

This was disclosed via a statement issued on Sunday, May 14, by the NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi.

Babafemi noted that though the two businessmen have businesses they manage in Nigeria, their main source of income has been drug trafficking.

He stated that the suspects both travelled to Uganda and from there crossed over to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where they picked the consignments before returning to Abuja with Lagos as their final destination.

The NDLEA spokesman disclosed that Ebere excreted 100 pellets weighing 2.137kg while Ogbuji expelled 93 pellets hidden in his stomach with a gross weight of 1.986kg.

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Babafemi added that NDLEA operatives also raided two notorious drug joints, Zaro bunk in Bama Road, Sabongari, and the Sani Abacha indoor stadium in Kano where 160 suspects were arrested with different quantities of illicit substances.

He said two suspects – Abubakar Sallau, 55, and Nazifi Abdullahi, 25 – were arrested on Saturday, May 13, along Kano-Maiduguri Road with 5,000 pills of Tramadol 200mg, while 65,200 tablets of tramadol and exol-5 were seized from the duo of Adamu Nagati, 30, and Ali Nasiru, 35.

The NDLEA spokesperson revealed that the anti-narcotic officers also arrested 25 suspects in raids across Tora Bora, Gwarinpa village, 3rd avenue in Gwarinpa, Karamo, Garki market, Sabongari Bwari, and New Kucigoro IDP camp in Abuja.

While commending officers of the anti-drug agency for their resilience, the NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), urged them and their peers across the country to intensify their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction activities.

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