Two drug kingpins excrete 125 wraps of heroin
Two drug kingpins have excreted 125 wraps of heroin after they were arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
One of the drug kingpins, Onyekwonike Elochuckwu Sylvanus, 30, who using a fake name, Kargbo Mohamed Foday, was arrested on February 25, at Port Harcourt airport, during the inward clearance of passengers on Qatar Airways flight from Doha through Abuja to Port Harcourt.
He was subsequently taken for body scan which confirmed he ingested illicit drugs, and was immediately placed under observation.
Sylvanus eventually expelled 62 wraps of heroin in five excretions, weighing 1.348 kilograms.
Preliminary investigation reveals that the suspect, who is using a Sierra Leonean passport, has been using the two identities for different drug trafficking missions between Thailand, Pakistan, Iran and West African countries.
He claimed to have gone full time into the illicit drug trade in 2017 when his clothing and shoe business went down.
The second kingpin, James Herbert Chinoso, 48, was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos on February 1, upon his arrival from Madagascar via Addis Ababa.
He egested 63 wraps of heroin with a total weight of 909 grams.
Chinoso had left Lagos to Madagascar on 26th January 2025 and returned via Addis Ababa after spending a week.
He claimed to have gone into the criminal trade after his phone accessories business in Liberia collapsed.
Meanwhile, two parcels of 2.82 kilograms of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis imported from the United States, were also intercepted at a courier firm in Lagos on February 6.
In another interdiction operation in Lagos, the anti-narcotics officers intercepted 80 ampoules of pentazocine injection 225grams concealed in cartons heading to Canada.
Similarly, NDLEA operatives in Kano, on February 3, arrested the duo of Usaini Salisu and Yahaya Mu’azu, both 23 years old, at Gadar Tamburawa along Zaria road, with 15,396 pills of tramadol concealed in a gas cylinder.
The operatives also nabbed a female suspect, Choima Okeke, 35, with 27 blocks of skunk, a strain of cannabis weighing 15kg, at Sabon Gari area of Kano, while 12,800 pills of tramadol 250mg going to Shuwarin in Jigawa state, was intercepted along Kabba-Obajana highway in Kogi state on February 8, with a suspect, Salisu Basiru, 33, arrested.
In a related development, 65 parcels of Colorado cannabis weighing 1.600kg also heading to Jigawa state, were recovered from another suspect, Rufai Hassan, 32, on the same day and at the same check point in Kogi state.
