Categories: Crimes

Businesswoman hides Qatar-bound drugs in butt pad underwear

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a businesswoman, Okolonkwo Ebere Theresa, for allegedly concealing illicit drugs in her underwear while attempting to board a Qatar Airways flight to Doha, Qatar.

The businesswoman was apprehended last Sunday at the screening point of terminal 2 of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos State.

The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement issued on Sunday, September 21, said after a thorough search, two big parcels of white crystalline substance that later tested positive to methamphetamine with a gross weight of 1.40 kilograms were recovered from the woman’s butt pad underwear.

Babafemi stated that during preliminary interview with Ebere, she claimed she trades in used clothing and also operates a POS business in Enugu where she was recruited into the illicit drug business.

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He added that 109 bags of skunk, a strain of cannabis, weighing 1,099.4 kilograms were seized from a 40-year-old suspect Hammed Danladi Aliyu, by NDLEA operatives supported by members of the Community Protection Guards (CPG) along the Gummi-Daki Takwas road in Zamfara State.

The suspect, according to Babafemi, was nabbed while conveying the consignment in a Mitsubishi Canter truck to a village called Company in Gummi Local Government Area of Zamfara State on Saturday, September 20.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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