Ibeanusi Solomon Nosike, a businessman based in Onitsha, Anambra state, has excreted 68 wraps of coc@ine after 12 days of excretion observation following his arrest at the local wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
This was disclosed by NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, August 25.
The 36-year-old was arrested in the early hours of Thursday, August 8, 2024 at the old domestic terminal of the Lagos airport while attempting to board the first flight out of Lagos to Abuja where he was scheduled to join a Qatar Airways flight to Vietnam at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at about 10am same day.
The suspect, who came under NDLEA surveillance following intelligence had arrived Lagos from his base in Onitsha, Anambra state the previous day, August 7, lodged in a hotel where he swallowed the 68 wraps of coc@ine before heading to the airport for a 6:30am flight the following morning.
He was thereafter intercepted by NDLEA operatives who moved him into excretion observation where he spent the next 12 days excreting the coc@ine pellets weighing 1.282 kilograms.
