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Home » NDLEA Arrests Ex-Footballer, Brazil Returnee For Cocaine Trafficking

NDLEA Arrests Ex-Footballer, Brazil Returnee For Cocaine Trafficking

by Joshua
October 3, 2022
in News

The NDLEA has arrested an ex-footballer; Mr Emmanuel Okafor, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja for cocaine trafficking.

 

Its Director, Media and Advocacy; Mr Femi Babafemi stated on Sunday in Abuja that Okafor was arrested on arrival from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Addis Ababa.

He flew in on an Ethiopian Airlines flight.

Babafemi stated that the suspect had 1.4kg of cocaine concealed in the handles of his bags and in the top edges of the bags.

He added that the 33-year-old indigene of Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia was arrested on Sept. 26 after anti-narcotic officers unra velled where he concealed the illicit substance.

“During preliminary interview, Okafor said he was a footballer at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu FC, where he played for four seasons before leaving for Sri Lanka in 2014.

“He said that he moved to Brazil from Sri Lanka after playing for two seasons, but could not advance his football career in Brazil as he did not have official documents,’’ Babafemi stated.

He added that another Brazil returnee, Chinedu Ibeh was also arrested on Sept. 26 upon arrival at the Lagos airport from Sao Paulo, Brazil, also via Ethiopian Airlines.

He stated also that Ibeh hails from Ahiazu in Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo and was found to have concealed 3.2kg of Black Cocaine popularly known as “Lucci’’ in false bottoms of his two bags.

“In his statement, he said he was to be paid N3.1 million on successful delivery of the drug in Nigeria,’’ the NDLEA spokesman stated.

——-Arrests Turkey-Bound Physically-Challenged Businesswoman For Drug Trafficking

Meanwhile, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has also thwarted an attempt by a 32-year-old businesswoman, Mrs Pamela Odin, to traffic 2.150kg tablets of Rohypnol through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja.

Babafemi also said on Sunday in Abuja that the mother of one was arrested on Sept. 23, while attempting to board a Turkish airlines flight with the drug concealed inside pepper and packed among foodstuff.

He said that the suspect, an indigene of Afiesere village in the Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta, claimed she operates a restaurant in Istanbul, Turkey.

“She claimed to have come to Nigeria to see her relatives and buy food items for her restaurant business,” Babafemi added.

Meanwhile, two Malians: Mohammed Demoele, 38, and Coulibaly Maliki, 56, have been arrested by officers of the Marine Unit of the NDLEA at Ebute Ero Jetty in Lagos.

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Babafemi said that the suspects were arrested for attempting to export 34.2kg bottles of a new psychoactive substance, Akuskura, to Mali through Cotonou in Benin Republic.

In another development, NDLEA operatives on Sept. 29, intercepted 100 compressed blocks of Cannabis Sativa, weighing 73.500 kg, concealed inside animal feeds in Taraba.

Babafemi said that a physically-challenged drug dealer, Abdulrahman Mohammed, was also arrested with 104 kg of compressed cannabis sativa.

He said that the the suspect was arrested on Saturday in Ogun by NDLEA operatives.

“Another suspect, Ms. Safiya Bello, was also arrested in Shagamu area of the state with 27kg of the psychotropic substance,” he added.

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