Iran-bound drug mule excretes 76 wraps of cocaine at Kano airport

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 38-year-old alleged drug mule, Okafor Ifeanyi Anthony at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano State.

The spokesperson of the agency, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, September 22, 2024, said the suspect was nabbed while attempting to board a Qatar Airlines flight to Iran via Doha with 76 wraps of cocaine in his stomach on September 15. 

“After three days in excretion observation, Okafor excreted the 76 pellets of the ingested cocaine weighing 1.267kg,” the statement read. 

Meanwhile, in Kogi state, NDLEA officers on patrol along Okene-Lokoja-Abuja expressway on Tuesday 17th September recovered 700,000 pills of exol-5 coming from Lagos for distribution in Kano and Kaduna, while a suspect Udemefuna Chibuike, 23, was arrested by operatives on Friday 20th September along Mokwa-Jebba road, Niger state, in possession of 49,000 tablets of tramadol, 20,000 tablets of diazepam, 100 ampoules of tramadol injection and 50 bottles of cough syrup with codeine.