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Two Businessmen Nabbed For Ingesting Cocaine, Heroin Inside Belly Enroute To Honkong And France

Two Businessmen Nabbed For Ingesting Cocaine, Heroin Inside Belly Enroute To Honkong And France

Two businessmen have been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja, with consignments of cocaine and heroin concealed in their bellies enroute to Hong Kong and France.

The NDLEA in a statement by its Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi said 38-year-old ThankGod Chimamkpa Emenike was arrested at the boarding gate of the Abuja airport on Friday 20th October during the outward clearance of passengers on Air France flight 818 to Paris, another passenger, while 41-year-old Agbo Chidike Prince was taken into NDLEA custody on Saturday 21st October while attempting to board an Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 950 to Hong Kong via Addis Ababa.

Part of the statement reads:

“They were both arrested and detained after their body scan revealed they ingested illicit drugs. After days in custody and a number of excretions, Emenike excreted 72 wraps of heroin weighing 1.171 kilograms, while Chidike discharged 49 pellets of cocaine with a total weight of 998.53grams. In his statement, Chidike claimed he is a businessman dealing in spare parts at the Alaba International market in Ojo area of Lagos.

” He added that he was to be paid N3.5million which he intended to use to import goods from Hong Kong”, the statement reads.

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