By Tolulope Popoola
NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, made this known in a statement on Sunday, stating that the culprit named Benson was on his way back to Nigeria from Brazil when he was arrested at the arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
Babafemi further revealed that the suspect was caught on June 20 upon arrival on an Ethiopian Airline flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil, through Addis Ababa.
He says that the suspect swallowed 50 wraps of cocaine before departing Brazil and excreted 48 pellets in Addis Ababa where he handed them over to another person.
According to the NDLEA spokesperson, Mr Babafemi, the suspect experienced inability to excrete the last two wraps at the hotel room in Addis Ababa before boarding his flight.
“He later excreted them in the aircraft restroom during the flight from Ethiopia to Lagos,’’ Babafemi said.
Meanwhile, two drug kingpins behind the smuggling of two drug consignments from Canada concealed in vehicles containers through the Tin Can Port in Apapa, Lagos, have also been arrested by the NDLEA’s operatives.
Babafemi stated that one of them was arrested at his house in Idi Araba area of Lagos on June 22 and the second suspect, popularly called Otunba, was arrested on Thursday for his role in the smuggling of 290 parcels of “Colorado’’, weighing 145kg from Montreal, Canada.
Babafemi said the drugs were concealed in four vehicles shipped into Nigeria in a 40ft container.
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