Officials of the Nigerian Drug\nLaw Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Tuesday arrested a passenger with cocaine\nworth N7b at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ukaegbu Bright Onyekachi, a\npassenger with Ethiopian Airlines from Guarulhos International Airport, Sao\nPaolo, Brazil via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was nabbed at the E-arrival wing of\nMMIA. It weighed 3.30kg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ukaegbu, however, claimed that he\nwas unaware the drug was concealed in the check-in luggage allegedly given to\nhim by a Nigerian based in Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking on the arrest of the\nsuspect, the Commander, MMIA, Ahmadu Garba, said the suspect concealed the drug\nin 68 T-shirts. He explained that the mode of concealment was ingenious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said: \u201cThe total weight of the\nseized drug is 3.30kg. It is not really a significant seizure when you compare\nit to the 8.5kg cocaine that was seized recently. But when you look at this\nseizure, the mode of concealment is very tricky. Our officials have to be\nexperienced to discover this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read Also: NDLEA intercepts 23\nbags of Indian hemp at Ondo forest<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDrug trafficking is a huge money\nbusiness and definitely, anything that is money, people will want to do it. I\nwant to say that the COVID-19 pandemic slowed them down and I want to believe\nthey want to meet up with the lost time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHowever, during the pandemic, my\nofficers had enough time to do some refresher courses, especially online. I\nwant to say the training we had during this period had helped our officials to\nlearn some of the ingenious ways they conceal these drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added that the NDLEA under\nGen. Buba Marwa as chairman would not tolerate any dastardly act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his confessional statement,\nUkaegbu claimed the check-in luggage was handed over to him by one Kingsley in\nBrazil, who he had only met twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ukaegbu, who said he was a\ncooperative attendant in Brazil, said he had been residing in the Southern\nAmerican country for five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He maintained that he was unaware\nthe T-shirts were laced with cocaine and appealed to the government to \u201ctemper\njustice with mercy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said: \u201cI was not aware that\nthe drug was in my check-in luggage. The person that handed over the luggage to\nme told me there was nothing inside the bag. I thoroughly checked the bag for\ndrugs. What I saw there were clothes for children and adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe was someone I met there as a\nNigerian and his name is Kingsley. I don\u2019t have his contact and he promised\nthat someone will come today (Tuesday) to collect the luggage from me. I didn\u2019t\nhave the phone contact of Kingsley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is my first time of being\ncaught in this web. I have never been found or in possession of any drug in my\nlife. This is my first time of experiencing this and my first time of seeing\ndrugs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also said Kingsley did not promise him any amount of money for helping to carry the luggage to Nigeria. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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