Woman, 46, enroute Saudi ingests 80 pellets of Cocaine, arrested by NDLEA

A 46-year-old woman, Adisa Afusat Olayinka, fell into the hands of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, when she was found have ingested 80 pellets of cocaine on her way to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for Umrah (Lesser Hajj).

NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, disclosed that Adisa Afusat Olayinka lives in Ibafo, Ogun State, but is from Ilorin, Ilorin East Local Government Area, Kwara State.

The NDLEA had apprehended Afusat Olayinka last Wednesday at the screening point of boarding at the outward clearance point of Qatar Airways flight 1418.

The woman in the custody of the NDLEA, was said to have excreted 80 pellets of the illicit drug suspected to be cocaine between Wednesday and Saturday.

Olayinka had said she trades in clothing but buys drugs in Lagos. Afusat Olayinka also confessed that she met a woman during her Umrah pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in 2019 who recruited her into drug trafficking.

She was, however, desperate to raise N7 million for In Vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment; according to Afusat Olayinka, she has been under pressure after  28 years of marriage without a child.

The NDLEA also arrested another drug trafficker, Inusa Abdulrazak, who concealed 101 wraps of Heroin, weighing 1.3 kilograms, sacks of cassava flour – gari, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos. Abdulrazak was to board a Turkish Airlines flight to Italy through Istanbul.