In a recent bust at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, NDLEA operatives apprehended a man returning from Brazil, Udechukwu Ekene Theophilus.
The suspect, arriving on an Ethiopian Airlines flight, attempted to avoid detection by refusing a body scan and claiming health concerns.
Upon providing alternative options, Udechukwu agreed to undergo excretion observation. Within NDLEA’s observatory, he expelled a total of 60 wraps, weighing 1.279 kilograms of cocaine in five excretions.
Udechukwu confessed to ingesting the drugs in Brazil, intending to discharge them in Addis Ababa.
However, he only managed to excrete 15 pellets before his connecting flight to Nigeria.
In a separate operation on Tuesday, NDLEA operatives discovered twelve cartons of tramadol, weighing 385.40kg, containing 599,900 pills at the SAHCO import shed of the Lagos airport.
The tramadol had entered the country on KLM Royal Dutch Airline flights from Karachi, Pakistan, between July 27th and August 1st, 2023, and had been under NDLEA watch.
Meanwhile, Seme Special Area Command operatives recovered 822 kilograms of cannabis sativa concealed in a fuel station along the Badagry-Seme road.
Additionally, Sani Audu was arrested with 111.3kg of the same substance on January 23rd in Jigawa State.