Europe-bound businessman excretes 45 cocaine wraps in Oyo

A 33-year-old businessman, Eze Emeka, has excreted 45 pellets of cocaine following his arrest by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Oyo State.

The businessman’s arrest came after the NDLEA officers intercepted a commercial bus at Akinyele along Ibadan/Oyo expressway, while en route Sokoto State.

The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement issued on Sunday, said Emeka was brought down from the vehicle and taken for body scan, which result confirmed ingestion of illicit drug, on April 21, 2026.

Babafemi said the suspect, a businessman in Sokoto, was subsequently placed under close excretion observation during which he excreted 45 pellets of cocaine with a total weight of 1.043 kilograms in three excretions.

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Babafemi noted that the decision to travel by road to Sokoto with the illicit drug in the suspect’s stomach was to evade detection by NDLEA at the airport.

He added that 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.