An Onitsha, Anambra State-based businessman, Ibeanusi Solomon Nosike, on Sunday reportedly excreted 68 wraps of cocaine after 12 days of observation.
This is according to the spokesman of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Femi Babafemi, in a statement obtained by our correspondent.
Babafemi noted that this followed Nosike’s arrest at the local wing of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State, by operatives of the agency.
According to the statement, 36-year-old Ibeanusi was arrested in the early hours of Thursday 8th August 2024 at the old domestic terminal of the Lagos airport while attempting to board the first flight out of Lagos to Abuja where he was scheduled to join a Qatar Airways flight to Vietnam at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at about 10am same day.
The suspect. who came under NDLEA surveillance following intelligence, had arrived Lagos from his base in Onitsha, Anambra State, the previous day, 7th August and lodged in a hotel where he swallowed the 68 wraps of cocaine before heading to the airport for the 6:30am flight the following morning.
He was thereafter intercepted by NDLEA operatives who moved him into excretion observation where he spent the next 12 days excreting the cocaine pellets weighing 1.282 kilograms.
