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March 26, (THEWILL) – Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have arrested a businessman, Molokwu Nwachukwu, who frequents China, Dubai, Pakistan and Vietnam, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos, for concealing thirty-six parcels of cocaine in different parts of his check-in bags, hand luggage and two pairs of slippers,
Onyeze Obiora has been busted at the SAHCO export shed at the Lagos airport, while attempting to smuggle Cocaine and phenacetin to Malabo.
A businessman, identified as Molokwu Nwachukwu, who frequents China; Dubai, UAE; Pakistan, and Vietnam, has been arrested by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. Femi Babafemi, the spokesperson for the NDLEA, disclosed the arrest in a statement on Sunday, adding that the suspect concealed thirty-six (36) parcels of cocaine in different parts of his check-in bags, hand luggage and two pairs of slippers while heading to Southeast Asia.
Molokwu was arrested at the screening point of the MMIA Terminal 2 while attempting to board his flight to Vietnam on Wednesday 22nd March. A total of thirty-six parcels of whitish powdery substance that tested positive to Cocaine with a gross weight of 1.00 kilogram were recovered from the handles of his bags and soles of two pairs of slippers in his luggage.
The Apapa Command of the NCS said that it generated over N1.022 trillion from Apapa port and other illicit drugs worth N14.4 billion in 2022.