…Another trafficker nabbed with 101 wraps of heroin at Lagos airport
A businesswoman heading to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for Umrah (Lesser Hajj) has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja for ingesting 80 pellets of cocaine.
The 46-year-old Mrs. Adisa Afusat Olayinka, who lives in Ibafo, Ogun state hails from Ilorin, in Ilorin East Local Government Area of Kwara state.
She was arrested on Wednesday November 24, 2021 at the boarding screening area of the airport during an outward clearance of Qatar Airways flight 1418 and was subsequently taken into custody where she excreted 80 pellets of the illicit drug between Wednesday and Saturday, November 27, 2021.
Adisa Afusat Olayinka claimed during interviews that she saved N2.5million over a period of one year to buy the drugs in bits from six different people at Akala, Mushin area of Lagos. The suspect further said she was trading in clothes but had to borrow N1million from three persons to make up the money used to buy the drugs, adding that she spent another N1million to renew her passport, visa and buy return flight tickets.
She said she was encouraged to traffic the drugs by a woman she met during her last Umrah trip to Saudi Arabia in 2019, adding that she needed to raise N7million for In Vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment due to pressure from people as a result of her fertility challenges since she got married 28 years ago.
In a related development, another trafficker, Inusa Abdulrazaki was arrested with 101 wraps of Heroin weighing 1.3 kilograms on Friday November 19, 2021 at Gate C-Departure hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos on his way to Italy via Istanbul on Turkish Airlines.
The drugs found on Abdulrazaki were concealed inside cassava flour popularly called gari. The following day Saturday, November 20, 2021 NDLEA operatives at the airport during a routine cargo search at NAHCO export shed intercepted an abandoned consignment of khat 17.90kg.
While commending the officers and men of the NAIA and MMIA commands for their vigilance and steadfastness, the Chairman of NDLEA, Brigadier General Mohamed Buba Marwa urged them to always stay two steps ahead of the drug cartels.
