The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 40-year-old businessman, Ejike Chibuke Solomon, with 1.45 kilograms of cocaine concealed in his luggage while attempting to board an Ethiopia Airlines flight to Vietnam at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.

Ejike was arrested at the Abuja airport on Saturday, March 2, 2024, after the NDLEA officers subjected him to a thorough search.

The cocaine was thereafter discovered concealed in his bag.

Confirming the incident, the NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement issued on Sunday, March 3, said the suspect claimed he was on a business trip to Vietnam.

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Babafemi added that the NDLEA officers on a stop and search operation along the Okene-Lokoja-Abuja expressway in Kogi State, on Friday, March 1, intercepted a commercial bus marked GRM 347XA (Borno) conveying 28 compressed blocks of Cannabis Sativa weighing 11kg, 100 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup, and 500 tablets of diazepam concealed in three plastic drums covered with cattle fats, heading to Jos, the Plateau State capital.

The NDLEA spokesman disclosed that the 243 Recce Battalion, Nigerian Army, Badagry, on Saturday, March 2, transferred 27 sacks of Cannabis Sativa weighing 1,110kg recovered at a coastal community, Ajido, by soldiers to the Seme Special Area Command of the anti-drug agency.

He noted that a 34-year-old suspect, Hassan Muhammad, was also arrested on Saturday with 44,950 pills of tramadol in the Moranti area of Borno State by the anti-narcotic officers.

Babafemi quoted the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), as commending the officers for their outstanding feats in the past week and equally applauding them and their counterparts in all the commands across the country for intensifying their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) advocacy lectures.

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