Another Vietnam-Bound Businessman Excretes 68 Wraps Of Cocaine At..

Another Vietnam-bound Nigeria businessman, has excreted 68 Wraps Of Cocaine after he was nabbed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.

The businessman Ibeanusi Nosike, was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, while attempting to board the first flight to Lagos.

This comes on the heels of an August 12 incident in which the NDLEA arrested one Paul Mbadugha, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport .

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He too was bound for Vietnam but was found to have injested cocaine upon test.

Mbadugha’s haul of cocaine  wighed 1.710 kilograms, NDLEA said in a statement today.

The statement by NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said Nosike stated:

“An Onitsha, Anambra state based-businessman, Ibeanusi Solomon Nosike, has excreted 68 wraps of cocaine after 12 days of excretion observation following his arrest at the local wing of the MMIA Ikeja Lagos by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.

“The 36-year-old Ibeanusi was arrested in the early hours of Thursday 8th August 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, NAIA, Abuja at about 10 am the same day.”

“The suspect who came under NDLEA surveillance following intelligence had arrived in Lagos from his base in Onitsha, Anambra state, the previous day, August 7 and lodged in a hotel where he swallowed the 68 wraps of cocaine before heading to the airport for a 6:30 am 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 cocaine pellets weighing 1.282 kilograms.”

In a related incident, another Onitsha-based businessman, Aligbo Jacob, who was Dubai, UAE-bound was arrested by NDLEA and a consignment of 1.20kg cannabis concealed in a package.

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“Operatives at the MMIA Strategic Command of the Agency had intercepted the shipment at the export shed of the Lagos airport while investigations revealed the cargo was sent through a courier company in Onitsha. After a series of follow-up operations, Aligbo was eventually arrested in Onitsha on Saturday, 17th August,” he added.

According to him, the leader of the syndicate, 42-year-old Olaribigbe Feyisara, had been under NDLEA radar before being tracked and arrested.