Officials of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a Brazilian returnee, Udechukwu Ekene Theophilus at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja Lagos over 60wraps of cocaine ingested.
Details of Theophilus’ arrest were made public, by Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi BabaFemi via a statement released Sunday, 28th of January, 2024.
The suspect was arrested during inward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the D-Arrival Hall of the Lagos airport on Sunday 21st January 2024, who from the onset refused to undergo body scan, using health issues in other to evade arrest.
When he was however offered other options, he accepted to be placed on excretion observation and shortly after he was ushered into NDLEA observatory, he excreted the first set of cocaine pellets, after which he expelled a total of 60 wraps of the class A drug weighing 1.279 kilograms in five excretions.
In his statement, Udechukwu claimed he ingested the consignment in Brazil and was to discharge everything at the airport in Addis Ababa but could only excrete 15 pellets which he handed over to another member of his syndicate before his connecting flight to Nigeria was called.
