Turkey-bound businesswoman arrested with drug concealed inside foodstuff at Abuja airport

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested 31-year-old businesswoman, Mrs. Pamela Odin, with 2.150kg tablets of rohypnol through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said the mother of one was arrested on Friday 23rd Sept. while attempting to board a Turkish airline flight with the drug concealed inside pepper and packed among foodstuff.

The indigene of Afiesere village, Ughelli North Local Government, Delta State said she operates a restaurant in Istanbul, Turkey but came to Nigeria to see her relatives and buy food items for her business.

WITHIN NIGERIA had reported that an ex-footballer, Okafor Emmanuel Junior, was arrested by NDLEA operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, on his arrival from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Addis Ababa on board an Ethiopian airlines flight with 1.40kg crack cocaine concealed in his bags.

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