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Two brothers – John Abugu, 43, and Kenneth Abugu, 31 – who were travelling to India have been arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos with five kilograms of cocaine.
They were arrested by the Special Operations Unit of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), according to the agency’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, who made this known in a statement yesterday.
He said the brothers were arrested last Thursday, following credible intelligence with the drugs concealed in their suitcases.
Babafemi said they claimed they were on their way to India for medical treatment but when their suitcases were searched by the agency’s officers, white powder later confirmed to be cocaine were found on the walls of their bags.
Also, NDLEA officers of the MMIA Strategic Command same day intercepted a 20-year-old Ghanaian-British man, Parker Darren Hazekia Osei, with 36 parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis weighing 19.40kg in a giant travelling bag.
The statement reads: “The suspect who claims he is a student of Computer Science at East London University, United Kingdom, was arrested during the clearing of passengers on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Bangkok, Thailand, at the E-Arrival Hall of the airport.
“In his statement, the techie claims he lives with his parents in the U.K. but left London about a week ago for Bangkok where he picked up the illicit drug consignment to deliver in Nigeria.”
The NDLEA spokesman added that operatives in Kogi State arrested a 33-year-old lady, Ngozi Ogili, while moving three kilogrammes of methamphetamine from Lagos to Abuja.
She was nabbed in a commercial bus on Okene-Lokoja highway on Monday, March 31.
A follow up at her point of delivery in Apo mechanic, Abuja led to the seizure of quantities of Loud and Colorado, synthetic strains of cannabis, Babafemi said.
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In Abia State, last Saturday Babafemi added, their officers arrested a 75-year-old man, Nna Nnanna Felix with 1.6kg skunk, a strain of cannabis during a raid at Umunteke Asa, Ukwa West Local Government Area, while another suspect David Chinemerem, 21, was nabbed with 2,050 ampoules of pentazocine at 7 Nnajiego Lane, Umuode road, Aba on April.
In Yobe State, last Saturday, no fewer than 381 bottles of codeine syrup and 108 tablets of tramadol were seized from a suspect, Abdullahi Adamu on Potiskum-Damaturu Road, Yobe State by the operatives, while raids at Osogbo Motor Park, Onitsha and a house at Oba in Idemili Local Government Area of Anambra State led to the arrest of Obinna Sunday and seizure of 195,000 pills of tramadol. Also arrested was Ugochukwu Ojalanonye with 4.2kg codeine syrup and 5.4kg pentazocine.