Hong Kong, France-bound businessmen arrested at Abuja airport for ingesting cocaine, heroin

<p>The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, says its operatives have arrested two businessmen, ThankGod Chimamkpa Emenike and Agbo Chidike Prince, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja, with consignments of cocaine and heroin going to Hong Kong and France concealed in their bellies.</p>, <p>NDLEA said Emenike, 38, was arrested at the boarding gate of the Abuja airport on Friday 20th October during the outward clearance of passengers on Air France flight 818 to Paris, while Prince, 41, was taken into custody on Saturday 21st October while attempting to board an Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 950 to Hong Kong via Addis Ababa.</p>, <p>This was disclosed in a statement issued on Sunday by Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy.</p>, <p>Babafemi said the duo were both arrested and detained after their body scan revealed they ingested illicit drugs.</p>, <p>He further revealed that Emenike excreted 72 wraps of heroin weighing 1.171 kilograms while Chidike discharged 49 pellets of cocaine with a total weight of 998.53 grams, after days in custody.</p>, <p>According to the statement, Chidike claimed he was a businessman dealing in spare parts at the Alaba International market in the Ojo area of Lagos. He claimed he was to be paid N3.5 million which he intended to use to import goods from Hong Kong.</p>, <p>In the same vein, Babafemi also announced that NDLEA operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos on Wednesday 25th October intercepted a Qatar Airways flight passenger going to Oman, Agbo Celestine Tochukwu, with a consignment of 58 parcels of skunk weighing 29.10kgs while undergoing processes to board his flight at the terminal 11 of the airport.</p>, <p>The anti-narcotic agency stated that Tochukwu claimed he relocated to Oman on 6th May and worked as a hotel attendant in Oman before venturing into drug trafficking.</p>, <p>Meanwhile, NDLEA claimed a total of 2,197 kilograms of skunk were recovered in four interdiction operations in parts of