NDLEA Busts Brazil Returnee, Others With Cocaine Concealed In Travel Bags, Baby Food

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has intercepted parcels of cocaine concealed in different parts of a travel bag brought into the country by a Brazil returnee, Nwadinobi Charles Uchemadu, on arrival from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Doha on a Qatar Airways flight.

NDLEA’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday said that the arrests were carried out at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.

The statement revealed that Uchemadu was arrested on Monday 5th December at the Lagos airport during inward clearance of passengers on the Qatar airways flight following the discovery of three parcels of cocaine weighing 2.70 kilograms factory sealed in parts of his travel bag.

NDLEA operatives, in a similar raid at the SAHCO export shed of the airport also intercepted cans of powdered milk, baby food and beverages used to conceal 3.4 kilograms of cannabis going to Dubai, UAE. A freight agent, Ewelike Chibuike Cyril who presented the consignment for export was subsequently arrested.

“In the same vein, parcels of cannabis weighing 6.30kgs concealed in sound systems (speakers) going to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea through the SAHCO export shed of the airport were also seized on Thursday 8th December by the operatives who initially arrested a freight agent, Joseph Obiji involved and later the following day, Friday 9th Dec nabbed another agent, Mbanu Ifeanyi Andrew in a follow up operation at ASPAMDA market, Trade Fair complex, Ojo area of Lagos,” the statement added.