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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested one Ukaegbu Onyekachi with a 3.30 kilogram of cocaine at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos State.
It was gathered that Onyekachi, who arrived from Sao Paulo, Brazil, via an Ethiopian airline, was intercepted on Monday during an inward clearance of passengers of the airline at the E Arrival Hall of the airport.
In a statement on Tuesday, the airport commander of the NDLEA, Ahmadu Garba, said Onyekachi concealed the drug inside T-shirt stickers.
He said, “The hard drug was cleverly concealed in T-shirts stickers, but he couldn’t escape the eagle eyes of our detectives.”
By Kingsley Omonobi ABUJA
Few days after at least three cocaine cartels were burst at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos, another trafficker, Ukaegbu Bright Onyekachi, has been nabbed with 3.30 kilograms of the illicit drug.
The suspect was arrested on Monday, February 1, during the inward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines at the E-arrival hall of the MMIA.
According to the Commander, MMIA command of the NDLEA, Mr. Ahmadu Garba, Ukaegbu Onyekachi arrived Nigeria on board Ethiopian Airlines plane from São Paulo, Brazil via Addis Ababa.
“The hard drug was cleverly concealed in T-shirt stickers, but he couldn’t escape the eagle eyes of our detectives,” Garba stated.