NDLEA Arrests Tailor with N29m Worth of Cocaine

Olowe Moshood Adebesin

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 41-year-old Lagos tailor, Olowe Moshood Adebesin, for allegedly smuggling  2.7kg of cocaine valued at N29 million into the country.  

According to a statement from the Agency signed by it’s spokesman, Mr Mitchell Ofoyeju, the suspect was arrested on arrival from Brazil at the Murtala on Thursday.

The substance was discovered in his luggage during the inward screening of passengers on a Turkish Airline flight.

Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Ahmadu Giade, who warned drug traffickers of the consequences of the criminal act says ” The suspect is only being greedy and he will face the consequences of his action. He should have weighed the gravity of the offence because the family he loves and seeks to protect, same he had abandoned today’.

So far,  the suspect has opened up, claiming ownership of the drug. ‘I am a tailor at Lagos Island…the people that sponsored me promised to pay me N2m. I agreed to smuggle the drugs because the money will change my life… My intention was to start importing clothes from China with the money but I was not lucky’.

Arik Air Hostess Arrested at Heathrow for Cocaine Possession

Chinwendu Uwakaonyenma Ogbonnaya,  a thirty-year old Nigerian, was arrested on Sunday 18 December over an allegation of smuggling four kilogram’s of cocaine into the United Kingdom.

A statement by the British High Commission in Abuja Tuesday said the drug was discovered in an item of luggage conveyed by Ogbonnaya.

“She had arrived into Heathrow Terminal 4 having travelled on an Arik Air flight from Lagos in Nigeria,” the statement said, adding that she was charged with attempting to import a class A substance, and appeared before Uxbridge Magistrate court Tuesday.

NDLEA: Baba Suwe still in Detention after third Excretion

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said yesterday that popular actor and comedian, Mr Babatunde Omidina, a.k.a. Baba Suwe who was arrested last Wednesday for allegedly ingesting cocaine in his system would remain in its custody and would continue to observe him even after he had reportedly made his third excretion on Monday night with no traces of drug found in it.

NDLEA’s spokesman, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, explained yesterday that the detained comedian would still be placed ‘under observation’ for now and that further developments on the matter would be communicated to the public.

Source: Vanguard

Cocaine: NDLEA detains Baba Suwe

Nollywood actor and veteran comedian, Alhaji King Babatunde Ayinla Nurudeen Olasunkanmi Omidina, a.k.a. Baba Suwe was arrested Wednesday night, for possession of substances suspected to be cocaine by the officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

Baba Suwe was picked up at the International wing of the Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos, by the NDLEA officials, while boarding an Air France flight to Paris, France.

It was revealed that Baba Suwe was on his way to Paris to act as a master of ceremony in a naming ceremony of an Air France staff who was also picked up.

The arrest was made when the scanning machine at the airport detected some substance hidden in the actor's stomach.

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