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NDLEA arrests Brazil returnee at Lagos airport

.Suspect excretes 60 wraps of cocaine

A Brazil returnee is in NDLEA’s net for ingesting 60 wraps of cocaine.

NDLEA arrested the suspect at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on Jan. 21 during an inward clearance of passengers travelling from Sao Paulo, Brazil, through Addis Ababa,

NDLEA’s spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi stated on Sunday in Abuja that the suspect initially refused to undergo body scan, raising health concerns in a desperate bid to evade arrest.

The suspect, however, accepted the offer to be placed on excretion observation, he added.

“Shortly after he was ushered into NDLEA’s observatory, he excreted the first set of cocaine pellets, after which he expelled a total of 60 wraps of the drug weighing 1.279kg in five excretions

“In his statement, the suspect claimed that he ingested the consignment in Brazil and was to discharge everything…
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