Brazil returnee arrested after excreting 60 wraps of coc@ine at Lagos airport

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a Brazil returnee, Udechukwu Ekene Theophilus, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos for ingesting 60 big wraps of coc@ine.

 

The suspect was arrested during 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 Sunday, January 21, 2024. 

NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, January 28, said the suspect 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 and shortly after he was ushered into NDLEA observatory, he excreted the first set of coc@ine pellets, after which he expelled a total of 60 wraps of the class A dr¥g weighing 1.279 kilograms in five excretions. 

In his statement, Udechukwu 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,” the statement reads.