Friday, November 06, 2009              

NDLEA arrests five over ingested drugs
By Chika Goodluck Ogazi

OPERATIVES of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested five suspected drug traffickers for allegedly swallowing 410 wraps of a powdery narcotic substances at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja

According to a statement by the Head, Public Affairs, Ofoyeju Mitchell, yesterday in Lagos, four of the suspects ingested 335 wraps of substances that tested positive for cocaine with a weight of 5.750kg while one suspect ingested 75 wraps of substances that tested positive for heroin with a weight of 1.3kg. All the suspects were caught attempting to export the illicit drugs out of the country at the airport.

It gave the names of the suspects as Udeagha Ume Irukwu 31, Lagos-based computer dealer that ingested 104 wraps of cocaine weighing 1.750kg; Owele Edwin Okotie, a 30 year-old labourer in a vegetable farm in Malaga, Spain who swallowed 100 wraps of narcotics weighing 1.6 kg and Nnaka Kingsley, a 30 year-old labourer in Akala, Spain who swallowed 64 wraps of cocaine weighing 1.150kg.

Others are Nwabueze Kalu Ikwa, 44 year-old trader that swallowed 67 wraps of cocaine with a weight of 1.250kg and Bonek Boniface, 31 year-old labourer in Italy who swallowed 75 wraps of heroin weighing 1.300kg.