Nigerian man excretes ingested cocaine–e1657452162452, arrested by NDLEA in Ibadan, others

Algeria-bound drug trafficker, 26-year-old Aloysius Ajuruchukwu Onyekwe (a.k.a Kelvin) who ingested 47 wraps of cocaine has been arrested by NDLEA after excreting the substance in Ibadan

Femi Babafemi, spokesman of the narcotic agency said the arrest was made possible with intelligence shared by the Department of State Services, DSS trailing his plans to reach Algeria by road, via Sokoto, and had taken off from Lagos.

The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.

Babafemi said the desperate bid by the alleged drug trafficker to travel by road to Algeria through Sokoto State with ingested 47 wraps of cocaine in his stomach was frustrated by NDLEA personnel.

He said that Onyekwe, who hailed from Owerri West LGA, Imo State, was arrested on July 3 at Ojoo Park, Ibadan, where he went to board a vehicle en route to Sokoto to Algeria.

According to Babafemi, the suspect traveled with an 18-year-old lady, Blessing Nwoke.

“The father of a 10-month-old child passed out the 47 pellets of cocaine in five excretions. He confessed that he began his journey to Algeria from Cele area of Okota, Lagos, where he ingested the illicit drug, weighing 1.1kg,” he said.

Also in Oyo State, at least 1,900 tablets of Tramadol 225mg were seized from a drug dealer, Mustapha Ijabula, 22, who hailed from the Mubi area of Adamawa.

Babafemi said Ijabula, who was arrested in a Yola, Adamawa-bound commercial vehicle, stopped for a routine search along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

“In Akwa Ibom state, a trans-border trafficker, Fonkou Dassi, 31, was on Friday arrested with 6,000 tablets of Tramadol 225mg weighing 3kg by officers of Marine Unit of the agency.

“This was when a commercial boat he boarded was intercepted and searched on his way to Cameroon. The suspect concealed the recovered drugs inside Indomie noodles cartoon,” he said.

In the same vein, a wanted drug dealer, Uduak Samuel, 29, was arrested on Tuesday, July 5 after attending a court proceeding where his wife was undergoing trial in another drug case.

Babafemi said the suspect had abandoned a Cannabis sativa exhibit weighing 9kg when his house was searched on June 27 and had been on the run since then.

“During his arrest, Uduak was still found in possession of a wrap of skunk,” he said.

Meanwhile, in Edo State, an alleged notorious drug dealer, Beauty Dauda, 27, was arrested with various quantities of Meth, heroin, cannabis, and crack cocaine in a densely populated slum along Lagos bypass, Benin City.

Babafemi said that Dauda was arrested on July 6 after NDLEA operatives broke through the ring of protection often provided to her by hoodlums and touts in the area.

Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has commended the officers and men of the MMIA, Oyo, Akwa Ibom and Edo commands of the Agency for staying vigilant and proactive in their areas of responsibility.