A businesswoman heading to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for Umrah, Lesser Hajj, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja for ingesting eighty pellets of cocaine.
The forty-year-old Mrs. Adisa Afusat Olayinka, who lives in Ibafo, Ogun State, hails from Ilorin, in Ilorin East Local Government Area of Kwara State was arrested at the boarding screening area of the airport during an outward clearance of Qatar Airways.
She claimed to have saved two point five million naira within one year to buy the drugs in bits from six different people at Akala, Mushin area of Lagos State adding that she was trading in clothes but had to borrow one million naira from three persons to make up the money used to buy the drugs after spending another one million naira to renew her passport, visa and buying return flight tickets.
According to her, she was encouraged to trade on drugs by a woman she met during her last Umrah trip to Saudi Arabia in 2019, especially as she needed to raise seven million naira for In Vitro Fertilization, IVF, treatment due to pressure from people because she has been married for twenty-eight years without a child due to fertility challenges.
Meanwhile, another trafficker, Inusa Abdulrazaki was arrested with one hundred and one wraps of Heroin, weighing one point three kilograms at Gate C -Departure Hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos on his way to Italy via Istanbul on Turkish Airlines, the drugs were concealed inside cassava flower.
A statement signed by the Director, Media and Advocacy NDLEA, Femi Babalola, revealed that NDLEA operatives at the airport, also intercepted an abandoned consignment of khat seventeen point nine-zero kilograms during a routine cargo search at NAHCO export shed.
While commending the officers and men of the NAIA and MMIA commands for their vigilance and steadfastness, the Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brigadier General Mohamed Marwa urged them to always stay two steps ahead of the drug cartels.
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