38-year-old ThankGod Chimamkpa Emenike was arrested at the Boarding Gate of the Abuja Airport during the outward clearance of passengers on Air France flight 818 to Paris, on Friday, 20 October.
41-year-old Agbo Chidike Prince was taken into NDLEA custody on Saturday, 21 October while attempting to board an Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 950 to Hong Kong, via Addis Ababa.
As stated in a press release by the NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, the two were arrested and detained after their body scan revealed they ingested illicit drugs.
After days in custody and a number of excretions, Emenike excreted 72 wraps of heroin weighing 1.171 kilograms.
In the same vein, Chidike was said to have discharged 49 pellets of cocaine with a total weight of 998.53grams.
In his statement, Chidike claimed he is a businessman dealing in spare parts at the Alaba International Market in Ojo area of Lagos.
He added that he was to be paid N3.5million which he intended to use to import goods from Hong Kong.
In the same vein, NDLEA operatives at the MMIA, Ikeja Lagos last Wednesday intercepted a Qatar Airways flight passenger going to Oman, Agbo Celestine Tochukwu.
Tochukwu was allegedly caught with a consignment of 58 parcels of skunk weighing 29.10kgs while undergoing processes to board his flight at the terminal 11 of the airport.
In his statement, Tochukwu claimed he relocated to Oman on 6 May and has been working as hotel attendant in Oman before venturing into drug trafficking.
Meanwhile, a total of 2,197 kilograms of skunk were recovered in four interdiction operations in parts of Ondo State within four days.
1,165.5kgs of skunk were seized in Uso, Owo Local Government Area last Wednesday, while a consignment of 691kgs were recovered from Ukugu Forest in Ipele the previous.
A suspect, Ifeanyi Abuguja (32), was arrested with 87kgs of same substance last Monday at Agula Road, Ogbese, Akure North Local Government Area.
253.5kgs were also recovered at Ogbese Market in Akure North Local Government Area on Thursday, 26 October.
In Oyo State, two suspects- Ayo Dele (19) and Olaitan Ahmed (23), were arrested with 160 grams of cannabis at a drug joint at Nalende area of Ibadan metropolis on Sunday, 22 October.
A follow up operation at the warehouse of the two suspects in the same area led to the recovery of 332kgs of the same substance.
Operatives of the Lagos Command of the agency intercepted and recovered a vehicle loaded with 209kgs of Loud at Okun Ajah area of the state last Monday.
Their counterparts in Gombe State, on Saturday, recovered an abandoned consignment of 401 blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 392kgs and 21,000 capsules of tramadol at Tumfure area of the state.
In the early hours of today, Sunday 29 October, NDLEA operatives in Edo State stormed the Utese Forest in Ovia North East Local Government Area, where they evacuated a total of 2, 931.3 kilograms of cannabis sativa from a warehouse in the forest.
The War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) advocacy campaign of the agency continued in equal measure in schools, markets, worship places and others across the country in the past week.
Some of them include WADA Town Hall sensitization lecture by Zone E Command, in collaboration with Kano and Jigawa commands of the agency for 108 principals of secondary schools in Dutse Emirate;
Lectures for students and teachers of Nkpoghoro community secondary school, Afikpo, Ebonyi State;
For students and teachers of Government Secondary School and Community Comprehensive School, both in Abua/Odual Local Government Area, Rivers State
There was also a WADA sensitisation lecture at Durbar Grammar School, Durbar, Oyo, Oyo State as well.
Chairman/CEO of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd), commended the officers and men of the NAIA, MMIA, Ondo, Oyo, Lagos, Edo and Gombe commands for the arrests and seizures of the past week.
He urged them and their compatriots across all formations of the agency to maintain the offensive action tempo and strive to surpass previous records while maintaining a balance with their drug demand reduction efforts.
