Operatives of the NDLEA, have arrested two businessmen at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport with consignments of cocaine and heroin going to Hong Kong and France concealed in their bellies.

This was revealed in a signed statement by the agency on October 29, 2023.

While 38-year-old ThankGod Chimamkpa Emenike was arrested at the boarding gate of the Abuja airport on 20th October during the outward clearance of passengers on Air France flight 818 to Paris, 41-year-old Agbo Chidike Prince was taken into NDLEA custody on the 21st October while attempting to board an Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 950 to Hong Kong via Addis Ababa.

They were both 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 heroïne weighing 1.171 kg while Chidike discharged 49 pellets of cocaine with a total weight of 998.53 grams.