Paris-bound businessman excretes 93 wraps of heroin at Abuja airport

<p>The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, says its operatives have arrested a 40-year-old Madrid, Spain-based businessman, Sherif Egbo Ally, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja while attempting to board an Air France flight to Paris, France, after they discovered he ingested illicit drugs.</p>, <p>NDLEA said Egbo was arrested on Saturday 14th October after a body scanner search revealed he had wraps of illicit drugs in his stomach.</p>, <p>According to the anti-narcotic agency, the suspect was subsequently placed under observation at the exhibit recovery room where he excreted 93 pellets of heroin weighing 2.222 kilograms.</p>, <p>The NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement issued on Sunday, stated that the suspect claimed he works at a chicken hatchery farm in Madrid, Spain, and is also into drug trafficking business.</p>, <p>Babafemi also announced that the NDLEA operatives at the NAHCO imports shed of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos, on Monday 16th October, seized a consignment of 10 cartons containing 500,000 pills of tramadol 225mg branded as tapentadol.</p>, <p>He explained that the cargo, which was shipped from India through Qatar Airways with airwaybill number MAWB 319-01227236 was purported to be a transit cargo to Monrovia, Liberia.</p>, <p>Babafemi said the lid was blown open through partnership and real time intelligence sharing mechanisms between NDLEA and its Liberian counterpart.</p>, <p>The spokesperson also announced other seizures made by the Agency.</p>, <p></p>, <p>He said, “Attempt by an intending passenger to Muscat, Oman on Qatar Airways, Ngene Chinecherem Oscar, to export 11.100kgs of skunk and 600grams of tramadol concealed in foodstuffs through the Lagos airport was thwarted by NDLEA officers who arrested him and seized the illicit substances.</p>, <p>“In another operation, NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigations, DOGI, attached to courier companies on Sunday 15th