Iran-bound passenger excretes 76 wraps of cocaine at Kano airport

A 38-year-old man, Okafor Ifeanyi Anthony, has excreted 76 wraps of cocaine weighing 1.267kg after his arrest by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano.

The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, September 22, 2024.

Babafemi disclosed that Okafor was arrested while attempting to board a Qatar Airlines flight to Iran via Doha with 76 wraps of cocaine in his stomach on Sunday, September 15.

Babafemi said the suspect, after three days of excretion observation, excreted the 76 pellets of the ingested cocaine.

He added that the NDLEA officers on patrol along the Okene-Lokoja-Abuja expressway in Kogi State, on Tuesday, September 17, recovered 700,000 pills of exol-5 coming from Lagos for distribution in Kano and Kaduna States.

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The NDLEA spokesperson noted that a 23-year-old suspect, Udemefuna Chibuike, was arrested by the anti-narcotic operatives on Friday, September 20, along Mokwa-Jebba Road in Niger State in possession of 49,000 tablets of tramadol, 20,000 tablets of diazepam, 100 ampoules of tramadol injection, and 50 bottles of cough syrup with codeine.

Babafemi stated that 451 blocks of cannabis weighing 213kg were intercepted along Azikiwe Road in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Wednesday, September 18, by NDLEA officers who apprehended a 33-year-old suspect, Ogochukwu Paul, conveying the consignment to a notorious drug haven in the Borikiri area of the state.

He added that the NDLEA officer, on Friday, September 20, arrested a wanted suspect, Jonathan Ali Abuttur, at Agingi-Rukuba Road in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State in possession of 808kg of Cannabis Sativa concealed in 68 bags of sugar and fertilizer.

While commending the anti-narcotic officers for the arrests and seizures, the NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), stated that their operational successes and those of their compatriots across the country, especially their balanced approach to drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts, were well appreciated.

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