CRIME & COURT

Drug courier attempts to bribe us with $3,000 – NDLEA

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has revealed how a drug courier attempted to bribe his way by offering $3,000 to operatives.

The operatives intercepted Nwofor Ejiogu Charles, 45, at the Abuja Airport on October 6 during passengers’ screening.

The agency said that Charles intended to board a Qatar Airways flight to Doha, when body scan revealed he ingested cocaine.

The agency said, “He was placed under observation during which he excreted 75 pellets of cocaine weighing 1.653 kgs.

“At the point of his arrest, Nwofor who was the last passenger to board his flight offered to compromise an NDLEA officer with $3,000 to free him.”

Similarly, the operatives on October 7 nabbed another trafficker, Nwufo Charles Okwudili, 45, on his way to boarding a Lufthansa Airlines flight to Paris, France.

“After being put through a body scanner, he was taken into a recovery room where he excreted 96 wraps of heroin he ingested with a total weight of 1.413 kgs, the agency stated.

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