NDLEA: accuses man of swallowing 127 heroin wraps
The
National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency has arrested two suspects in possession
of hard drugs, valued at N50m at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport,
Kano State.
Parading
the suspects at the airport on Thursday, the NDLEA commandant at the airport,
Mr. Ambrose Umoru, said the suspects – a man and a woman – were nabbed on
February 17 by the operatives of the command during a routine inward screening
of passengers on board Ethiopian Airline, flight number ET 941, with the
substances suspected to be narcotic drugs.According to Umoru, one of the
suspects, Nweke Emmanuel, 49, a native of Ire in the Idemili South Local
Government Area of Anambra State, was caught with 2.180kg of ingested heroin,
adding that the quantity is the single largest drug ingestion seizure recorded
in the country in recent times.
Umoru
said, “Emmanuel was a businessman and barber, who is based in Kinshasha,
Democratic Republic of Congo. The suspect travelled to Bujumbura, Burundi,
where he ingested a total of 127 wraps of heroin.“Emmanuel transited Addis
Ababa to Kano and was to board a night luxury bus to Onitsha, where he was
expected to excrete the substance when the operatives of the NDLEA Airport
Command, Kano, promptly arrested him on arrival.
“The
second suspect, Gloria Dumebi, 32, from Ibusa in the Oshimili Local Government
area of Delta State, who is a hair stylist, was arrested on the same flight,
with 3Kg whitish powdery substance, suspected to be cocaine. The woman
concealed the packaged substance in a large brown traveling bag in order to
convey it to Nigeria before she was arrested by the operatives.”
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