The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has arrested a 26-year-old man, saying the suspect allegedly excreted 47 wraps of Cocaine after he was arrested by its operatives in Oyo state.
The Agency said the suspect was arrested, following an intelligence reports shared by the Department of State Security, (DSS).
The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi made this known in a press statement on Sunday in Abuja.
Babafemi said the desperate bid by the drug trafficker to travel by road to Algeria through the Sokoto state with ingested 47 wraps of cocaine in his stomach was frustrated by NDLEA personnel.
He said that the suspect was arrested on July 3 at Ojoo park, Ibadan where he went to board a vehicle en route Sokoto to Algeria.
According to Babafemi, the suspect traveled with an 18-year-old lady, Blessing Nwoke.
“The father of a 10-month-old child passed out the 47 pellets of cocaine in five excretions.
“He confessed that he began his journey to Algeria from Cele area of Okota, Lagos, where he ingested the illicit drug, weighing 1.1kg,” NDLEA said.
Also in Oyo state, no fewer than 1,900 tablets of Tramadol 225mg were seized from a drug dealer.
Babafemi said the suspect, who was arrested in a Yola, Adamawa-bound commercial vehicle stopped for routine search along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
“In Akwa Ibom state, a trans-border trafficker, was on July 8 arrested with 6,000 tablets of Tramadol 225mg weighing 3kg by officers of the Marine Unit of the agency.
“This was when a commercial boat he boarded was intercepted and searched on his way to Cameroon. The suspect concealed the recovered drugs inside the Indomie noodles cartoon,” Obafemi said.
In the same vein, a wanted drug dealer was arrested on July 5 after attending a court proceeding where his wife was undergoing trials in another drug case.
Babafemi said that the suspect had abandoned a cannabis sativa exhibit weighing 9kg when his house was searched on 27th June and has been on the run since then.
“During his arrest, the suspect was found in possession of a wrap of skunk,” he said.
Meanwhile, in Edo state, a notorious drug dealer was arrested with various quantities of Meth, heroin, cannabis and crack cocaine in a densely populated slum along Lagos bypass, Benin City.
Babafemi said that the suspect was arrested on July 6, adding that NDLEA operatives were able to break through the ring of protection often provided by hoodlums and tours in the area.
