The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a woman, Ihensekhien Miracle Obehi, at the Port Harcourt International Airport of Rivers State while trying to smuggle 2.5kg of cocaine to Iran.
She was caught on Sunday, 3 May, disguised in a hijab to avoid detection.
According to NDLEA release on Sunday, Obehi had concealed three wraps of cocaine in her private part, two large parcels in her handbag, and swallowed 67 pellets of the drug.
She claimed she was supposed to swallow 70 pellets but couldn’t ingest the last three and decided to hide them in her body.
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She was placed under observation and later excreted all the swallowed pellets.
In a separate case, NDLEA officers at Lagos airport arrested 22-year-old British national Campell Kaizra Kofi Johannes Slifer on May 9 with 37.6kg of Loud cannabis in two suitcases.
Slifer, a repeat offender, confessed to being recruited in London to transport the drugs from Thailand to Nigeria.
In Niger State, NDLEA intercepted a fuel truck and three other vehicles loaded with 3,047kg of cannabis along the Suleja-Kaduna road. Four suspects were arrested.
More arrests followed across the country. In Lagos, NDLEA seized over 109,000 pills of tramadol and other drugs.
In Kaduna, two suspects were caught with 52.5kg of skunk, and in Kwara, 45,400 tramadol pills were recovered.
Bauchi officers seized 505kg of cannabis in a Toyota Tundra, while in Kano, 775 litres of codeine syrup were recovered during a raid.
A 1.1kg consignment of Loud hidden in a pillow was also intercepted at a Lagos courier company.
Meanwhile, NDLEA continued its drug abuse awareness campaign in schools and religious centers nationwide.
NDLEA Chairman, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (Rtd), commended the agency’s officers for their efforts in drug supply control and public education.
