Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a Brazil returnee, Udechukwu Ekene Theophilus, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos for ingesting 60 big wraps of cocaine.
The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, made this known in a statement on Sunday.
Theophilus was arrested during the inward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the D-Arrival Hall of the Lagos airport on January 21 2024.
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He initially refused to undergo body scan, raising health concerns, in a desperate bid to evade arrest.
When he was however offered other options, he accepted to be placed on excretion observation.
Shortly after he was ushered into NDLEA observatory, he excreted the first set of cocaine pellets, after which he expelled a total of 60 wraps of the class A drug weighing 1.279 kilograms in five excretions.
In his statement, Theophilus claimed he ingested the consignment in Brazil and was to discharge everything at the airport in Addis Ababa, but could only excrete 15 pellets which he handed over to another member of his syndicate, before his connecting flight to Nigeria was called.