Ugs: 2 pregnant women, barber arrested at Lagos airport
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Law Enforcement cy (NDLEA) have ed two pregnant women e Murtala Muhammed national Airport IA), Ikeja, Lagos, for pting to import and t illicit drugs. okesman of the agency, Babafemi, on Sunday in , said the first to enter gency’s dragnet was a lian returnee, Nworie p Chikwendu, who was ed on Tuesday, May 3, during an inward clearance of passengers on a Qatar Airways flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil, en route Doha to Lagos.
He said, “During a thorough search of his luggage, two parcels of cocaine were discovered concealed in a pair of brown slippers hidden in his ox blood backpack.
Babafemi further said, under interrogation, Nworie who claimed to be a barber in Sao Paulo, said he came to Nigeria for the burial of his father, but confessed that he decided to get into the criminal act because his trip was sponsored by his Brazilbased friend who gave him the drug to deliver in Lagos for a fee of N2m.
The spokesman added that the following day, Wednesday, May 4, NDLEA operatives at the SAHCO export shed of the airport intercepted some cartons of alcoholic drinks suspected to contain illicit drugs.
A freight agent who brought the consignment for export to Dubai, UAE, Shola Ogunrinde, was arrested while a follow up operation led to the arrest of a pregnant woman, Mrs Seun Babatunde, who operates an alcohol joint in Pleasure area of Iyana Ipaja.
When the cartons were opened in the presence of the agent and the pregnant owner, seven parcels of cannabis and a sachet of ecstasy drug (MDMA) were found concealed inside cans of Black Bullet alcoholic drink.
Also, a second pregnant woman, Mrs Gloria Asibor, was arrested on Thursday, May 5, while attempting to board a Turkish Airline flight to Bolonia, Spain, via Istanbul, Turkey.