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Opratives of the
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested 4 drug traffickers
Ejiofor Eliezer (46), Obah Francis (30), Akpa Sobuzochukwu (27) and 36-year-old
Ike Okechukwu, after they excreted 171 wraps of drug that tested
positive for cocaine at the Muritala
Mohammed International Airport.
According to
Punch, the men were apprehended during the screening of passengers on board
Qatar and Emirates airlines enroute to Brazil. One of the drug traffickers,
Eliezer, who excreted 100 wraps of the drug, when interrogated, said poverty
pushed him into the illicit act.
“I live in Brazil, where I work in a supermarket and
lived with my wife and four children. Life in Brazil is tough because I live
from hand to mouth. It was poverty that made me to smuggle drugs. I took risk
by swallowing 100 wraps of cocaine for N200, 000 because of poverty.”he said
Another
trafficker, Francis when interrogated said he ventured into drug trafficking to
boost his meager salary he makes from his bakery job Brazil. He said he would have made N2.8
million if he had succeeded.
“I am single and
have been working in Brazil for two years. At present, I work in a bakery and
my salary is meagre. My plan was to give the drug to a friend in Dubai, but he
did not come to collect the drug as planned. This was how I had to come to Nigeria with the drug. I blame my friend
for my arrest because I would have made S15,000 (about N2.8m) from the deal.”he
said
Sobuzochukwu who
holds a diploma in accounting, swallowed 26 wraps and was paid S1, 500 i.e
N285,000.
One of the
traffickers, Okechukwu expressed his regrets :“I regret my involvement in drug
trafficking. I dropped out of school in Junior Secondary School class two and I work in a toy company in
Brazil,” he added
According to NDLEA
Chairman, Ahmadu Giade, they would be charged to court soon.
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