NDLEA has arrested an Iran-bound woman with cocaine concealed in her handbag and private part.
Glamtush reports that operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a woman, Ihensekhien Obehi, at the Port Harcourt International Airport for attempting to smuggle cocaine to Iran using a bizarre concealment method involving her private part, stomach, and handbag.
This news platform understands that Obehi, who was disguised in a hijab, was apprehended on Sunday, May 3, while trying to board a Qatar Airways flight to Iran via Doha.
According to a statement by NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, she was caught with three wraps of cocaine in her private part, two parcels hidden in a false bottom of her handbag, and 67 pellets she had swallowed.
“During her search, she was found to have inserted three wraps of cocaine into her private part, with two large parcels hidden in false compartments of her handbag, while she had also swallowed 67 pellets of the Class A drug. As a result, she was placed under excretion observation. After four excretions over several days, she expelled all 67 wraps. She claimed she was meant to swallow 70 pellets of cocaine but, after ingesting 67, could no longer continue and decided to insert the remaining three into her private part. The total weight of the three consignments hidden in different parts of her body is 2.523 kilograms,” the statement read.
In a related operation, the NDLEA said its operatives at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos on Friday, May 9 intercepted a 22-year-old British national, Campell Kaizra Kofi Johannes Slifer coming from Thailand through Doha on Qatar Airways flight with two suitcases loaded with 35 parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis weighing 37.60kg.
Campell, who claimed he had twice been convicted in the UK for drug trafficking and robbery, said he was recruited in London to travel to Thailand to pick up the illicit consignment and bring the same to Nigeria, the NDLE said.
In Niger state, NDLEA disclosed that its officers acting on intelligence on Wednesday May 7 intercepted a fuel truck marked ABJ 693 XU and three other vehicles loaded with 246 bags of skunk, a strain of cannabis with a combined weight of 3, 047 kilograms along Suleja-Kaduna road.
It added that four suspects arrested with the exhibits include Christopher Onyema, 47; Benedict Etineruba Young, 54; Chukwudi Ujue Jerry, 30; and Mohammed Abdullahi Danasabe.
Apart from the fuel truck, three other vehicles recovered from the suspects include a Honda Odyssey bus, marked YAB 667 CZ; a Gulf bus with registration number GWA 125 TQ and a Honda Odyssey bus marked ABJ 230 CN.
