A man has been arrested by the operatives of the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency for the alleged possession of hard drugs in Lagos.
The man, identified as Ibeanusi Solomon Nosike who is known as an Onitsha based bussinesman in Anambra State, was said to have been arrested in the early hours of Thursday, 8th August 2024 at 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, NAIA, Abuja at about 10am same day.
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The NDLEA added that upon interrogation and after a 12 day excretion observation, Nosike excreted a total of 68 wraps of cocaine after being arrested at the local wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
“The suspect who came under NDLEA surveillance following intelligence had arrived in 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 a 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,”he said
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