How Love Landed Nigerian-Canadian Nurse In NDLEA’s Net
A Nigerian-Canadian Nurse, Olami Khadijat Usman has landed in the net of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) after her lover residing in Nigeria instructed her to travel with 70 parcels of Canadian Loud, weighing 35.70 kilograms.
A weekly update on Sunday by the agency disclosed that the suspect was arrested on October 4 at the Lagos airport during the inward clearance of Air France passengers from Toronto, Canada via Paris.
“During her interview, she claimed she was in Nigeria to meet her boyfriend who instructed her to come with the large consignment of the highly sought-after synthetic cannabis,” the NDLEA said.
Also, operatives of the NDLEA on October 17 arrested a 26-year-old businessman, Iwuagwu Victory for ingesting 30 wraps of the illicit drug.
The suspect coming from Brazil via Addis Ababa was arrested during the inward clearance of passengers on the Ethiopian Airlines flight.
The agency noted that his body scan revealed ingestion of an illicit drug, and when he was put under observation, he excreted a pellet of cocaine weighing 22 grams.
”He however confessed that he ingested 30 wraps of the illicit drug in Brazil but excreted 29 pellets in Addis Ababa, where he handed them over to another person.
“The suspect revealed that he was to be paid N2.5 million for trafficking the drug,” the agency noted.
Similarly, another businessman, Ihejirika Emmanuel, 51, was also arrested by the NDLEA on October 15.
Ihejirika who according to the agency frequents Thailand from where he claims to be importing fish into Nigeria was arrested while attempting to board an Ethiopian Airlines flight to Thailand via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The NDLEA said that when he was taken for a body scan, the result showed he ingested an illicit drug which proved to be cocaine.
As a result, he was placed under excretion observation during which he expelled five big egg-size wraps of cocaine weighing 400 grams.
“In his statement, the 51-year-old suspect confessed that he was to be paid upon successful delivery of the drug consignment in Thailand.
“He said he needed the money to boost his fish importation business,” the agency noted.
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How Love Landed Nigerian-Canadian Nurse In NDLEA’s Net is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
