The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 67-year-old man, Chukwuemeka Clement, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja for ingesting 100 wraps of cocaine.

The NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, made the disclosure in a statement issued on Sunday, October 8, 2023.

Babafemi noted that Chukwuemeka was arrested on Tuesday, October 3, during the inward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines flight 951 from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and taken for a body scan, which revealed multiple pellets in his stomach.

He disclosed that the suspected trafficker, while under observation, excreted a total of 100 wraps of cocaine weighing 2.195 kilograms in four excretions.

The NDLEA spokesperson added that the 67-year-old man, in his statement, claimed to have spent 30 years in Brazil, Ethiopia, and Thailand, and was once married but lost his wife and without a child.

Babafemi stated that Chukwuemeka revealed that he decided to go into drug trafficking to raise money to marry a new wife and start life afresh.

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He noted that the NDLEA operatives also arrested a suspect, Auwal Bindow, with 50,000 capsules of tramadol along the Bauchi-Gombe expressway in Gombe State on Friday, October 6.

The NDLEA spokesman added that the officers of the anti-drug agency while on patrol along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway nabbed a 32-year-old suspect, Anuoluwapo Blessing Iyanu, with 52 blocks of compressed pawpaw-shaped cannabis sativa weighing 30kgs on Wednesday, October 4.

Babafemi further stated that the various commands of the NDLEA across the country continued with the War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) advocacy campaign in the past week.

He listed the campaign to include WADA sensitisation lecture for students and teachers of Igbonnibi High School, Ila Orangun, Osun State; WADA sensitisation lecture at Royal Ambassador Secondary School, Makurdi, Benue State; WADA sensitisation lecture at Ilora Baptist Grammar School, Ilora, Oyo State; and LGA WADA sensitisation lecture for students of Beth-Root Model Secondary School, Onitsha, Anambra State.

While commending the anti-narcotics officers for their outstanding feats in the past week, the NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), equally applauded their counterparts in all the commands across the country for intensifying their WADA advocacy lectures by creating a fair balance between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction activities.

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