The man was placed under observation at the NDLEA’s exhibit recovery room where he excreted 93 pellets of heroin.
By Jeffrey Agbo
A 40-year-old man, Sherif Egbo, headed for France has been arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja for ingesting heroin.
Spokesman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Femi Babafemi, made this known via a statement on Sunday.
Babafemi said the suspect was arrested while attempting to board an Air France flight to Paris, France, after they discovered he ingested illicit drugs.
He said that the suspect was arrested on Saturday Oct. 14 after body scanner revealed he had wraps of illicit drugs in his stomach.
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Babafemi added that the man was subsequently placed under observation at the agency’s exhibit recovery room where he excreted 93 pellets of heroin weighing 2.222 kilograms.
“In his statement, the suspect claimed he works at a chicken hatchery farm in Madrid, Spain and also into drug trafficking business, ” he said.
Babafemi also said NDLEA operatives at the Nigeria Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) imports shed of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, (MMIA) in Ikeja made seizures.
Babafemi said that the operatives seized a consignment of 10 cartons containing 500,000 pills of tramadol 225mg branded as tapentadol on Monday.
He said that the cargo, which was shipped from India through Qatar Airways with airwaybill number MAWB 319-01227236 was purported to be a transit cargo to Monrovia, Liberia.
