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NDLEA Intercepts Businessman With Large Consignments Of Cocaine At Enugu Airport

The 44-year-old who claims he deals in copper wire was arrested at the airport upon his arrival from Douala, Cameroon via Addis Ababa.

Twelve consignments of cocaine belonging to members of a Drug Trafficking Organisation were intercepted by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, AIIA, in Enugu on Saturday 9th December 2023.

A man, Augustine Justine Emeka, 44, who claims he deals in copper wire was arrested at the airport upon his arrival from Douala, Cameroon via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Ethiopia airline with the 12 consignments consisting of seven hundred and ninety-seven (797) pellets of cocaine weighing 17.6 kilograms. During preliminary interview, the suspect admitted the cocaine consignments were for delivery to 12 different persons in the country.

In the same vein, operatives of the Seaports Operations of the Agency on Monday 4th December arrested a 45-year-old Beninoise, Jamila Fatiu at Ebute Ero Jetty in Lagos Island with 398 bottles of codeine cough syrup on her way to Seme border via a boat service.

 

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