Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 38-year old drug mule, Okafor Ifeanyi Anthony at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano.
Okafor was arrested on Sunday 15th September while attempting to board a Qatar Airlines flight to Iran via Doha with 76 wraps of cocaine in his stomach.
NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi in s statement on Sunday said after three days in excretion observation, Okafor excreted the 76 pellets of the ingested cocaine weighing 1.267kg.
In Kogi state, NDLEA officers on patrol along Okene-Lokoja-Abuja expressway on Tuesday 17th September recovered 700,000 pills of exol-5 coming from Lagos for distribution in Kano and Kaduna, while a suspect Udemefuna Chibuike, 23, was arrested by operatives on Friday 20th September along Mokwa-Jebba road, 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.
A total of 451 blocks of cannabis weighing 213kg were intercepted along Azikiwe road, Port Harcourt, Rivers state on Wednesday 18th September, by NDLEA officers who apprehended a suspect Ogochukwu Paul, 33, conveying the consignment to a notorious drug haven in Borikiri.
