- Udechukwu ingested the illicit drugs on a flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
One Udechukwu Ekene Theophilus, a Brazil returnee has been arrested with 60 wraps of cocaine, totaling 1.279 kilograms, in Lagos.
He was apprehended by opeeratives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.
Udechukwu ingested the illicit drugs on a flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
This development is contained in a statement signed by the Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, and posted on the agency website on Sunday.
The statement said, “Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a Brazil returnee, Udechukwu Ekene Theophilus at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos for ingesting 60 big wraps of cocaine.
“The suspect who was arrested during inward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the D-Arrival Hall of the Lagos airport on Sunday 21st January 2024, initially refused to undergo body scan, raising health concerns in a desperate bid to evade arrest.
THE LOUNGE: Girlfriend Takes Money From Joint Account With Boyfriend, Bails Ex-husband From Jail0:00 / 1:01
“When he was however offered other options, he accepted to be placed on excretion observation and shortly after he was ushered into NDLEA observatory, he excreted the first set of cocaine pellets, after which he expelled a total of 60 wraps of the class A drug weighing 1.279 kilogrammes in five excretions.”
NDLEA said Udechukwu claimed in his statement that he ingested the consignment in Brazil and was to discharge everything at the airport in Addis Ababa but could only excrete 15 pellets which he handed over to another member of his syndicate before his connecting flight to Nigeria was called.
Discussion about this post