- Safiu Kehinde
A self-acclaimed businessman, Eze Prince Emeka, has excreted 46 wraps of cocaine following his arrest by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
Eze was apprehended along Ibadan-Oyo Expressway after the commercial bus he boarded was intercepted by the NDLEA operatives attached to the Oyo Command.
As disclosed in a statement issued on Sunday by the agency’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, Eze was singled out from the bus en route Sokoto state.
The 33-year-old passenger was brought down from the vehicle and taken for body scan, which result confirmed ingestion of illicit drug.
He was subsequently placed under close excretion observation during which he excreted a total of 45 pellets of cocaine with a total weight of 1.043 kilograms in three excretions.
According to Babafemi, Eze had intended to travel by road to Sokoto with the illicit drug in his stomach was to evade detection by NDLEA at the airport.
Further investigation revealed that upon arrival in Sokoto, the suspect was to excrete the pellets, rest for a few days, and subsequently re-ingest the substances to continue the journey through the trans-Saharan routes, with Algeria as a transit point and possible final destination in Europe.
Video attached to the statement showed the suspect counting the egested pellets of illicit drug place on the table before him.