Drug traffickers caught with liquid cocaine inside condoms at MMIA

  

Two Igbo men have been caught at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, Nigeria while arriving from Venezuela. The two men were found to have ingested liquid cocaine neatly wrapped inside male condoms but were detected by the scanning machines at the airport. Christian Chidi Ejimbe, 32, an English lecturer in Caracas, capital of Venezuela was discovered to have swallowed 54 wraps weighing 1.350kg. He was promised N4million. while on the other hand, Innocent Oluchukwu Egbo, 43 married with two chidren and has been living in Venezuela for 10years, ingested 70 wraps of the drug weighing 2kg. He was promised $6,000.

Both men arrived Lagos with Emergency Travel Certificate aboard South Africa Airline flight.

NDLEA spokesman, Mitchell Ofuyeju told Saturday Mirror that the two suspects would soon be charged to court.

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Female NYSC arrested with cocaine in Abuja

                              

A female NYSC member is now in the custody of the NDLEA over a drug parcel sent by her London-based Facebook friend.

The lady had, at the weekend, received a telephone call from her London friend about the arrival of a parcel with instructions on whom to hand it to once she collected it. The parcel had arrived Lagos enroute Abuja, at the weekend, but officials of the courier firm in collaboration with NDLEA operatives decided to open the parcel before the beneficiary was allowed to take it away.

During checking, the vigilant operatives discovered a pack of cocaine. The parcel, a small container, has within it three packs of cocaine concealed inside a wall clock. The lady under interrogation confessed that she met the man on Facebook and was under instruction to hand over the parcel to another friend also based in Abuja.

She also confessed that this was not the first time she would be collecting parcels from her London-based friend. Even the shoe she was wearing at the point of her arrest was said to be a 'gift' from the same friend.

NDLEA given 21 days to pay Baba Suwe the sum of N25million

Baba Suwe

Justice Yetunde Idowu of the Lagos High Court has ordered the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency  (NDLEA) to pay the popular comedian Babatunde Omidina popularly known as Baba Suwe, the sum of 25million naira within 21 days. The money which is to be paid into an interest yielding account through the Chief Registrar of the High Court is to serve as compensation for the violation of the actor's right to personal liberty.