Body scan at the Port Harcourt International Airport has pushed a suspected drug carrier into the waterloo.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), has arrested the businessman, 44-year-old Ezemokwe Chukwuebuka, after the scan indicated he ingested 53 wraps of cocaine.
In a statement by the NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy (NDLEA), Mr Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in Abuja, the suspect was arrested while on his way to Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Babafemi said that the arrest came barely two weeks after operatives of the NDLEA at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) Kano, intercepted a 60-year-old businessman Chinedu Okigbo with 65 pellets of cocaine in his stomach.
He said that Ezemokwe was arrested at the Port Harcourt airport on Saturday, June 7 while trying to board Qatar Airways flight QR1434 flying to Tehran in Iran via Doha.
According to him, after a body scan proved positive to ingestion of illicit drugs, he was placed on excretion observation.
“This was during which he expelled 53 wraps of cocaine in six excretions with a total weight of 1.172kg.
“The suspect claimed to have gone into the criminal trade two years ago, moving between the West African sub-region and Iran.”
