He hid 630g of cocaine in six tablets of soap to smuggle to United
Kingdom. Olawole Akanle, a 42 year-old man was recently arrested at the
Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.
He was not fast
enough as the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency nabbed him as he was
about to board an Arik Air flight to London.
Nicholas Ezika,
another suspect was also arrested. Ezika ingested 62 wraps of
methamphetamine weighing 1.130kg which he was about smuggling to
Malaysia via Egypt Airline flight.
Mr Hamza Umar, the NDLEA
commander at the airport confirmed the arrests. He said this is the
second time we are detecting drugs concealed in soap this year. Although
it was an ingenious plan, we are able to detect it. Olawole and Ezika
were said to have made confessional statements on their involvement.
Akanle,
who holds Nigerian and British passports, said, “I was born in London. I
lived in south-east London until 2007 when I came back to Nigeria. I
sell laptops, clothes and shoes to earn a living. I was contacted to
smuggle the drugs by a friend. He told me that since I have a British
passport and had lived there, it will be easy for me to handle. They
also told me that the drug was neatly concealed. He promised to pay me
£3,000 excluding all travel expenses. That was how I got involved.”
An
auto parts dealer at the Onitsha Market in Anambra State, Ezika blamed
his predicament on the demolition of his shop. He said, “I am an auto
parts dealer at Npkor, Onitsha. I was doing fine in business until my
shop was demolished. After the demolition, it was difficult to take care
of my wife and only child. I had no option of survival than to accept
$3,000 to smuggle the drugs. I ingested the drugs at Onitsha and came to
Lagos to board my flight to Malaysia. I was ignorant of the fact that
drug offenders are liable to death in Malaysia. It was after my arrest
that I discovered the risk involved in my action.”
In his
reaction, the Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Ahmadu Giade,
expressed delight over Ezika’s arrest. He said, “I am very happy with
the arrests, particularly that of the second suspect, Ezika. It is good
that we detected the drug here. Apart from the death penalty he would
have faced in Malaysia, we have also protected the image of the country
from disrepute. I urge members of the public to join in the fight
against drug trafficking and abuse. We have saved many young people from
similar premature deaths and we hope to do more to protect lives in the
days ahead.”
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