Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 42-year-old Angolan businessman, Mbala Dajou Abuba, with large consignment of cocaine at the Kano International Airport in northern Nigeria.
The NDLEA spokesman, Mr. Femi Babafemi, said in a statement on Sunday in Abuja that Abuba, who is from the Zaire province in Angola, was arrested on Tuesday, Feb, 25, 2025 at the screening point of the Kano Airport while trying to board Egypt Air flight MS 880 to Istanbul, Turkey, via Cairo.
According to the statement, after his body scan result confirmed he had ingested an illicit drug, he was thereafter placed under excretion observation, during which he expelled 120 pellets of cocaine weighing 1.829 kilograms in seven excretions.
The statement added that the suspect claimed that he was in the business of township delivery services in Angola before delving into the illicit drug trade.
The statement also said that at the Tincan Seaport in Lagos, the NDLEA operatives on Friday, February 28, discovered a total of 128 parcels of Canadian Loud, a strong strain of cannabis concealed in two mattresses in the trunk of a Toyota Venza car imported from Canada.
“The discovery of the 63.75kg consignment was made during a joint examination of a targeted container marked TCNU 1945861 from Montreal, Canada, by NDLEA, Customs and other security agencies.
“The consignee of the shipment, 44-year-old Bamidele Joseph, has been arrested and taken into custody,” the statement said.
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