Eight drug pushers arrested
In the bid to take a new wife, Clement Chukwuemeka, 67, decided to push hard drugs but his plan failed.
Femi Babafemi, the spokesperson for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), said operatives arrested Clement at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
He also said Clement had arrived from Ethiopia before the operatives had his body scanned, revealing the “multiple pellets in his stomach.”
“While under observation, he excreted a total of 100 wraps of cocaine weighing 2.195kg in four excretions,” Babafemi stated.
Clement, Babafemi said, told the agency he had “spent 30 years in Brazil, Ethiopia, and Thailand; his first marriage collapsed without a child and he planned to take another from the proceeds of the hard drugs.
Similarly, Bilkisu Bello, 45, led NDLEA operatives to recover 52 wraps of cocaine at a location in Farawa area of Kano state. Operatives arrested her at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, enroute to Saudi Saudi Arabia, Babafemi said.
In a related incident, the operatives destroyed “10.38 tonnes of cannabis sativa” planted on a 4.152 hectares of land, located at James town, Ogunmakin, in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State.
The enforcement team equally intercepted 20kg of cannabis hidden in a 40ft container carrying logs of wood. Suspects arrested are Ahmed Yusuf, Olaniyi Babatunde, Adedeji Babatunde, Richard John, Osolale Olamilekan and Abdulazeez Saied.
