- Safiu Kehinde
A 36 Year-Old Nigerian businessman has excreted 68 wraps of cocaine following his arrest by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
This was disclosed in a statement issued by the agency on its official X handle today.
According to the statement, the Onitsha-based businessman, identified as Ibeanusi Solomon Nosike, was arrested the local wing of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on the 8th of August 2024.
Recounting the ordeal of his arrest, NDLEA disclosed the he came under surveillance following his arrival from Anambra state.
He had, allegedly, swallowed the pellets of cocaine in a Lagos hotel before heading to the airport to board an Abuja-bound flight and from there join a Qatar Airways flight to Vietnam.
Following his arrest, Ibeanusi was placed on a 12-day excretion observation during which he excreted 68 wraps of cocaine.
The statement read in part, “An Onitsha, Anambra state based-businessman, Ibeanusi Solomon Nosike, has excreted 68 wraps of cocaine after 12 days of excretion observation following his arrest at the local wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
“The 36-year-old Ibeanusi was arrested in the early hours of Thursday 8th August 2024 at the old domestic terminal of the Lagos airport while attempting to board the first flight out of Lagos to Abuja where he was scheduled to join a Qatar Airways flight to Vietnam at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja at about loam same day.”
“The suspect who came under NDLEA surveillance following intelligence had arrived Lagos from his base in Onitsha, Anambra state the previous day, 7th August and lodged in a hotel where he swallowed the 68 wraps of cocaine before heading to the airport for a 030am flight the following morning.
“He was thereafter intercepted by NDLEA operatives who moved him into excretion observation where he spent the next 12 days excreting the cocaine pellets weighing 1.282 kilograms.”