Man, caught with 2.4kg of cocaine, ingested 66 wraps

Shola Adekola, Lagos - 25.02.2008

A suspected drug courier caught by men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, has been found to have ingested 66 wraps of cocaine as well as packing 2.4 kilogrammes of the drug on his body.

The suspect, Egeonu Martin Nnamdi, 36, was caught last Wednesday at about 10.00 p.m while trying to board a Turkish Airline flight to Istanbul.

In addition to the 66 wraps of cocaine, 2.4 kilogrammes of the same drug was neatly wrapped to his waist.

Martin, who hails from Amaigbo in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State, said he was a successful businessman until he was duped of N3 million, which he said, lured him into drug trafficking, adding that he was deceived by his sponsor who told him to do it with the assurance that he would not be caught.

“Since I was in serious financial difficulty, I believed him. He promised to pay me $1,500 per kilogramme. See now I have been caught and my wife is pregnant. She will put to bed in the next two weeks,” Martin lamented.

The second suspect, Chidibere Charles Adame-mium, ingested a total of 100 wraps of cocaine.

The 27-year-old suspect, who came to Nigeria on February 9, to smuggle narcotics to Milan, works as a gardener in Rimini, Italy.