After 35 years in Brazil, businessman returns home with ingested cocaine
After 35 years in Brazil, a businessman, Ezeokoli Sylva has returned home with 700grams of cocaine buried in his stomach.
Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA spokesman said in a statement that the discovery was made following Ezeokoli’s arrest on Friday by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
The 59-year-old was arrested at the E-Arrival hall of the airport upon his return from Sao Paulo, Brazil on Ethiopia Airlines flight via Addis Ababa.
“When he was taken for body scan, the result confirmed that the suspect had foreign objects concealed in his stomach. As a result, he was placed under excretion observation during which he expelled 29 wraps of substances that tested positive to cocaine weighing 700grams.
“In his statement, the suspect claimed he operates an African store in Brazil where he sells provisions, shoes and clothes. He added that he bought the illicit consignment in Sao Paulo to resell in Nigeria with a view to raising substantial capital to boost his business.”
Meanwhile, the statement said oficers of the Directorate of Investigation and General Investigation, on November 26 intercepted two consignments of cocaine and pentazocine injection going to the United Kingdom via a courier company in Lagos.
The cocaine, weighing 200grams, was concealed in local fabrics, while 40 ampoules of pentazocine injection weighing 110grams were hidden in cartons.
It said that NDLEA operatives in Kano, on November 28 arrested three suspects, Jamilu Adamu, 38; Umar Musa, 32; and Bunu Ali, 27, with 2,000 ampoules of pentazocine injection and 3,135,000 pills exol-5 at Gadar Tamburawa, along Kano-Zaria road.
“No fewer than 2, 120 kilograms of Ghanaian Loud, a strong strain of cannabis produced in Ghana were intercepted by NDLEA operatives at the Ilesan beach in Lagos on the date.
“A suspect, Onibogi Muftau was arrested in connection with the seizure while four vehicles that were used to convey the shipments from the water front were also recovered.
“This came on the heels of the seizure of 472kg of the same psychoactive substance at Idi-Iroko, Imeko area of Ogun state on November 25.”
Similarly, two suspects named Monday Onyenemue, 60, and Evans Omogiede, 42, were arrested on November 28 with 185.6kg of cannabis in Edo state.
A Toyota Previa bus marked BEN 06 XL conveying the consignment was intercepted during an intelligence-led raid at Ukuwague street, Benin city.
