Abuja Airport: “businessman” bound for Paris excretes 93 wraps of heroin—NDLEA

According to NDLEA, a body scanner showed that Egbo had wraps of illegal drugs in his stomach.

Sherif Egbo, a 40-year-old “businessman,” was allegedly detained by agents of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.

In a statement released on Sunday, NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi said that a body scanner had discovered that Egbo was carrying wraps of illegal substances in his stomach.

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He claimed that on October 14, as the suspect was preparing to board an Air France flight to Paris, France, anti-narcotics officials discovered he had ingested illegal drugs and detained him.

After that, he was kept under close monitoring in the facility’s display recovery room, where he passed 93 heroin pellets weighing 2.222 kilogrammes. The suspect stated in his statement that he is both a drug trafficker and works at a chicken breeding farm in Madrid, Spain, the NDLEA spokeswoman added.

On Monday, October 16, agents of the organisation confiscated a shipment of 10 cartons containing 500,000 pills of tramadol 225mg branded as tapentadol at the NAHCO imports yard at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos.

The package, which had the airwaybill number MAWB 319-01227236, was allegedly being transported to Monrovia, Liberia, as a transit shipment from India via Qatar Airways. The relationship and real-time intelligence sharing procedures between the NDLEA and its Liberian counterpart, however, blew the lid off.

Similarly, NDLEA agents stopped Ngene Chinecherem’s attempt to fly on Qatar Airways to Muscat, Oman, with 600 grammes of tramadol and 11,000 kilogrammes of skunk hidden inside food.

According to Babafemi’s statement, the suspect was detained at the Lagos airport and the illegal narcotics were recovered.

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On Sunday, October 15, NDLEA agents in Imo State stopped a Mercedes Benz container truck with the licence plate ABN 418 YN that was parked in a remote place along the Owerri-Onitsha Motorway. After searching the abandoned truck, 168 bags of skunk weighing 1,854 kilogrammes were found.

The agency said that less than 1,381.3kgs of the same substance were seized in four interdiction operations in parts of Edo state including – Ekpon community, Igueben LGA; Iguiye forest in Ovia North East LGA; Iruekpen, Ndokwa West where a suspect, Monday Nwocha was arrested; and in Egwalor village in Onwude LGA where the duo of Obune Prince and Chika Obi were arrested and their Audi 80 salon car marked BEN 406 CL loaded with cannabis sativa, recovered.

Aminu Suleiman, a 46-year-old ex-felon, Haruna Abdurrahaman, a 41-year-old, and Ojo Esezobor, a 34-year-old, were all apprehended in Kano state on Saturday, October 14, and 106kg of cannabis were found on them. The NDLEA said that Aminu was initially detained on June 3, 2022, with 22kg of marijuana, and that he was found guilty by a jury on November 24, 2022.

On Monday, October 16th, four other suspects, Inusa Ali, Yahaya Musa, Abba Audu, Ali Abubakar, and Bunu Kyari, were also detained in Kano’s Gadar Tamburawa neighbourhood for trafficking in 75.3 kg of skunk.

On Friday, October 20, NDLEA agents from Zone J Command found 928 kg of cannabis hidden in bushes near Shagari market, along Ifon-Owo express road, and Ibola camp in Ipele forest in Ondo State. The cannabis was found in a forest in Ikere Ekiti.

Sani Mohammed, a suspect in Borno State, was apprehended with 182kg of marijuana on Saturday, October 21, at Njimtilo, near the Maiduguri-Damaturu route.

In a separate operation, NDLEA agents from the Directorate of Operations and General Investigations, DOGI, attached to courier firms on Sunday, October 15, intercepted 2.5 kg of cocaine and phenacetin hidden in the walls of a carton bound for Saudi Arabia, along with 1 kg of methamphetamine hidden in containers of body cream.