- Safiu Kehinde
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has nabbed two brothers, John Abugu, 43, and Kenneth Abugu, 31, with 5 kilograms cocaine concealed in walls of their suitcases while attempting to board a flight to India.
The brothers were arrested on Thursday by NDLEA’s Operatives of a Special Operations Unit at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja, Lagos.
This was disclosed in a statement issued on Sunday by the NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi.
According to the statement, the brothers claimed to be travelling to India for medical treatment but when their suitcases were thoroughly searched by NDLEA officers, whitish powdery substances later confirmed to be cocaine were discovered on the walls of their bags.
In a similar development, NDLEA officers of the MMIA Strategic Command, same day, intercepted a 20-year-old Ghanaian — British man, Parker Darren Hazekia Osei with 36 parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis weighing 19.4kg packed in a giant travelling bag.
The suspect who claimed he is a student of Computer Science at East London University, UK, was arrested during the inward clearance of passengers on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Bangkok, Thailand, at the E-arrival hall of the Lagos airport.
Osei, in his statement, claimed he lives with his parents in the UK but left London about a week ago for Bangkok where he picked up the illicit drug consignment to deliver in Nigeria.
In a separate development, NDLEA operatives in Kogi state arrested a 33-year-old lady, Ngozi Ogili while recovering 3 kiIograms of methamphetamine from Lagos to Abuja.
She was nabbed in a commercial transport bus along Okene-Lokoja highway on Monday March 2025.
A follow up operation at her point of delivery in Apo mechanic area of Abuja led to the seizure of quantities of Loud and Colorado, both synthetic strains of cannabis.