• Thu. Apr 18th, 2024

NDLEA Arrests Woman with 100 Wraps Of Cocaine At Abuja Airport

Brazil based Nigerian, Mrs.Anita Ugochinyere Ogbonna, has been arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja, with 100 pellets of cocaine concealed in her private part and handbag.

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, arrested the mother of three on arrival in Abuja from Sao Paulo, Brazil.

12 wraps of cocaine inserted in her private part were extracted while another 88 pellets stuffed in socks were discovered in her handbag.

Mrs. Ogbonna confessed to drug trafficking to raise money for the burial of her father who died in Imo, the NDLEA said.

She said one Emeka, alias KC also based in Brazil gave her the drug to deliver in Nigeria for a fee of $3,000.

She also claimed to have left her children in the care of a neighbor in Brazil to embark on the ‘make-money-quick venture’.

RN