Just recently in Abuja, a
34-year-old motorcycle parts dealer, Okolo Emenike, was arrested by
officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), for
carrying 9.150kg of cocaine into the country.
34-year-old Okolo Emenike arrested for hiding N1.7b worth of cocaine inside foot wears.
Emenike unlike others, who swallow these
hard drugs, went as far as hiding the cocaine inside new pairs of foot
wears and pretended to have imported them from Brazil. The young man was
arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, during an
inward screening of passengers on a Turkish flight from Brazil.
The NDLEA commander at the Abuja airport, Hamisu Lawan, puts the estimated value of the drug at £3.8m pound.
Lawan said: “The discovery was made in a
shipment of shoes during inward screening of passengers on a Turkish
airline flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil. The cocaine was industrially
concealed in the soles of new foot wears.”
After
much interrogation, Emenike confessed that he was offered N1 million to
smuggle the drugs into Nigeria. Emenike said he left Nigeria for a
better life in Brazil.
He said: “Things became worse for me as
I could not get a job. I had no money to sustain myself while my work
permit was being processed. I was equally confronted with the fear of
deportation. This made me desperate for quick wealth. In the process, I
met my childhood friend, who offered me N1million to traffic cocaine to
Nigeria. He also paid for my ticket and gave me three bags of shoes
containing the cocaine. But on arrival at the Abuja airport, the cocaine
was detected and I was arrested. I had wanted to invest money offered
to me in my business that failed due to recession.”
Vanguard
further reported that, Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Col.
Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah (retd.) who commended his men for the arrest,
stated that the huge profit derived from drug trafficking had made it a
top priority for drug cartels to be financially incapacitated.
Nawa o!
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