Businessman detained after excreting 68 wraps of cocaine in Lagos
Businessman detained after excreting 68 wraps of cocaine in Lagos
Abdullateef Fowewe
The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a 36-year-old Anambra based-businessman, Ibeanusi Nosike, at the local wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Ikeja Lagos, after he was found to have excreted 68 wraps of cocaine after 12 days of excretion observation.
Ibeanusi was arrested at the old domestic terminal of the Lagos airport 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, as revealed by the NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi in a statement on Sunday.
The statement partly reads, “An Onitsha, Anambra state based-businessman, Ibeanusi Solomon Nosike, has excreted 68 wraps of cocaine after 12 days of excretion observation following his arrest at the local wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
“The 36-year-old Ibeanusi was arrested in the early hours of Thursday 8th August 2024 at the old domestic terminal of the Lagos airport 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 10 am the same day.
“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 6:30 am 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.”
Dailyeconomy on August 18, reported that the NDLEA successfully intercepted drugs hidden in noodles in Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.
