The NDLEA’s Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday said that Clement confessed that he ventured into the criminal enterprise to raise enough money to marry a new wife and start life afresh after wasting 30 years of his life in Brazil, Ethiopia and Thailand.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said that its personnel arrested a 67-year-old drug trafficker, Mr. Chukwuemeka Clement, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja for ingesting 100 wraps of cocaine.
The NDLEA’s Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday said that Clement confessed that he ventured into the criminal enterprise to raise enough money to marry a new wife and start life afresh after wasting 30 years of his life in Brazil, Ethiopia and Thailand.
According to the NDLEA spokesperson, Mr. Clement was arrested last Tuesday during the inward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines flight 951 from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and taken for a body scan, which revealed that there were multiple pellets in his stomach. While under observation, he excreted a total of 100 wraps of cocaine weighing 2.195 kg in four excretions.
“In his statement, he claimed to have spent 30 years in Brazil, Ethiopia and Thailand, while he was once married, but lost his wife and without a child. He added that was why he decided to go into drug trafficking to raise enough money to marry a new wife and start life afresh,” Babafemi stated.
He added that on the same day, NDLEA operatives at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano, intercepted a 45-year-old woman identified as Bilkisu Mohammed Bello, while preparing to board a Saudi Airlines flight to Saudi Arabia.
He said that while being interviewed, “she confessed that pellets of cocaine given to her to swallow before her flight were kept in a house in Farawa area of Kano. When she led NDLEA officers to the house, 52 wraps of the illicit substance with a total weight of 767 grams were recovered.”