Crime
Father-of-three excretes 76 pellets of cocaine in Abuja
A 52-year-old man, Okwo Paul Okechukwu, has been arrested for ingesting 76 pellets of cocaine.
According to a statement by the spokesperson of the National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Femi Babafemi, the suspect who is a father-of-three was arrested on Sunday, July 17, upon his arrival from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia via an Ethiopian airline flight at the Abuja airport.
During preliminary interview, Okechukwu, said he was into selling womens wigs and hair attachment before veering into the drug trade. He has since completed excreting all the 76 wraps of the drug he swallowed while under observation at the Agency’s facility in Abuja.
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