Italy-Bound Heroin Intercepted At Abuja Airport – NDLEA

Italy-Bound Heroin Intercepted At Abuja Airport – NDLEA

A 23-year-old suspected drug trafficker, Okoguale Douglas, was on Friday arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) with heroin at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

The agency said the suspect, who was arrested while trying to board a Milan, Italy bound flight, had excreted 59 wraps of heroin weighing 781.2 grams.

Femi Babafemi, the agency’s Director, Media, and Advocacy, disclosed this in a statement titled ‘Italy-bound heroin intercepted at Abuja airport, NDLEA nabs trafficker.’

The statement read in part, “Douglas, who hails from Uromi in Esan North-East Local Government area of Edo State, was arrested by operatives of the NDLEA, during an outward clearance of Ethiopian Airline flight number 910 at the boarding gate of the airport en route Abuja-Addis Ababa- Milan (Italy) after being scanned, which proved positive for ingestion.

“Under interrogation, he claimed he has been residing in Italy since 2011 after entering the country via Libya with one of his uncles.

“He said he works as a restaurant attendant in Italy where he earns 900 Euro per month and also works as a painter on his free days and gets about 400 Euro upon completion of any work. He also confessed he was promised 2000 Euro if he successfully delivers the drug to Milan, Italy.

“He said he came to Nigeria on April 4, 2021 for the burial of his late father in Esan, Edo State and after spending so much during the burial, he ran out of money, a situation that made him to ask for financial support from one of his Nigerian friends resident in Italy.