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National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested two suspected drug traffickers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested two suspected drug traffickers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos. One of the suspects had a fake on duty tag and a tarmac reflective jacket just to beat security check. In a signed statement made available to LEADERSHIP yesterday, the Agency gave the suspects’ names as Uchendu Eze Sunday, 40 and Okeke Mathew Chizoba, 21. They were nabbed with substances suspected to be illicit drugs.
Okeke smuggled his way to the tarmac under the guise of an airport staff but was promptly detected by officials of Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). When searched, travel documents were found on him. Okeke was also found to have ingested 76 wraps of substances suspected to be cocaine. He is married to a Pole and works as a supermarket attendant in Warsaw, Poland. He hails from Uzo Nwanne in Enugu State and would have been paid 3,500 Euros.
According to the NDLEA Commander, Mr. Victor Cole-Showers, the case was being investigated. “We have commenced investigation and he will be charged for drug trafficking and thereafter handed over to the police to answer his case of impersonation” the Commander stated. He thanked officials of FAAN and other security agencies at the airport for their cooperation in the fight against narcotic drugs.
Uchendu Eze Sunday, who was was arrested earlier, packed substances suspected to be illicit drugs in a false bottom of his travelling bag and in addition, ingested 84 wraps of same substance. The quantity he packed in the bag weighed 3.478 kg while the 84 wraps he swallowed weighed 1.469 kg bringing the total weight to 4.947 kg. This is one of the highest single seizures trafficked by a courier in the past three months with a street value of over N13 million. Uchendu, a motor spare parts dealer at Ladipo market in Lagos, was about to board a KLM flight to Amsterdam when he was caught. The suspect, who would have been paid the sum of 3,000 pounds, attributed his problem to spiritual manipulation. In his words “it is a spiritual manipulation, all I get goes in vain. Today I no longer have a shop. I met a man who promised to help me by introducing me into drugs, I never knew that he was adding to my problems,” he lamented. He lives at Bariga, Lagos with his wife and three children.
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