A businessman, identified as Molokwu Nwachukwu, who frequents China; Dubai, UAE; Pakistan, and Vietnam, has been arrested by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. Femi Babafemi, the spokesperson for the NDLEA, disclosed the arrest in a statement on Sunday, adding that the suspect concealed thirty-six (36) parcels of cocaine in different parts of his check-in bags, hand luggage and two pairs of slippers while heading to Southeast Asia.
Molokwu was arrested at the screening point of the MMIA Terminal 2 while attempting to board his flight to Vietnam on Wednesday 22nd March. A total of thirty-six parcels of whitish powdery substance that tested positive to Cocaine with a gross weight of 1.00 kilogram were recovered from the handles of his bags and soles of two pairs of slippers in his luggage.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has seized a consignment of illicit drugs about to be brought into the country by suspected criminals.
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