He was arrested last Tuesday during the inward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines flight 951 from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The suspect, as contained in a press release by the NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, ingested 100 wraps of cocaine.
He was taken in for body scan, which revealed multiple pellets in his stomach.
While under observation, Chukwuemeka Clement excreted a total of 100 wraps of cocaine weighing 2.195 kilograms in four excretions.
He claimed he ventured into the criminal enterprise to raise enough money to marry a new wife and start life afresh after wasting 30 years of his life in Brazil, Ethiopia and Thailand.
He stated in his statement, that he spent 30 years in Brazil, Ethiopia and Thailand, and he was once married, but lost his wife and without a child.
He added that was why he decided to go into drug trafficking to raise enough money to marry a new wife and start life afresh.
Same day, NDLEA operatives at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano, intercepted a 45-year-old woman, Bilkisu Mohammed Bello, while preparing to board a Saudia Airlines flight to Saudi Arabia.
Interviewed, she confessed that pellets of cocaine given to her to swallow before her flight were kept in a house in Farawa area of Kano.
When she led NDLEA officers to the house, 52 wraps of the illicit substance with a total weight of 767grams were recovered.
Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives, supported by officers and men of the Nigerian Army, Civil Defence Corps and Amotekun personnel, last Tuesday, stormed James Town, in Ogunmakin, Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State.
The NDLEA operatives located and destroyed 10.38 tonnes of cannabis sativa covering over 4.152 hectares during the operation.
“On their way back from the operation, the team also intercepted a truck marked FS548XN carrying a 40ft container loaded with logs of wood.
“A search of the container led to the recovery of two bags of cannabis sativa weighing 20kgs.
“Six suspects: Ahmed Yusuf, Olaniyi Babatunde, Adedeji Babatunde, Richard John, Osolale Olamilekan and Abdulazeez Saied, in the truck were arrested,” it was stated in the release.
In the same vein, NDLEA operatives, last week Sunday, raided Obi Camp in Owan West Local Government Area, Edo State.
30 sacks of skunk weighing 300kgs and concealed in charcoal were evacuated from an old dilapidated mud house during the raid.
Similarly, two cannabis farms, measuring 1.179065 hectares, at Igbanke Forester in Orhiowon Local Government Area of the state were identified and destroyed last Friday.
Four suspects: Tersoo Zaria (28); Ifeanyi Osai (53); Moses David (19), and Daniel Gabriel (20), were arrested during the operation.
In Gombe State, a suspect, Auwal Bindow was arrested last Friday along Bauchi-Gombe Road with 50,000 capsules of tramadol.
In Oyo State, NDLEA operatives on patrol along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway nabbed Anuoluwapo Blessing Iyanu (32) with 52 blocks of compressed pawpaw-shaped cannabis sativa weighing 30kgs, last Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the various commands of the agency across the country continued with the War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) advocacy campaign in the past week.
Some of their activities included WADA sensitisation lecture for students and teachers of Igbonnibi High School, Ila Orangun, Osun State;
WADA sensitisation lecture at Royal Ambassador Secondary School, Makurdi, Benue State; WADA sensitization lecture at Ilora Baptist Grammar School, Ilora, Oyo State;
Local Government Area WADA sensitisation lecture for students of Beth-Root Model Secondary School, Onitsha, Anambra State.
Chairman/CEO of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd), has commended officers and men of the NAIA, MAKIA, Ogun, Oyo, Edo, and Gombe Commands of the agency for their outstanding feats in the past week.
He equally applauded their counterparts in all the commands across the country for intensifying their WADA advocacy lectures.
He said they have thus been creating a fair balance between the drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction activities.
