Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a trans-border trafficker, Emeka Okoro and another drug dealer, Ibrahim Bello, with cocaine weighing 1.1kilogramme in Abuja.
The intercepted illicit substance has a street value of N264 million.
Okoro was nabbed with 900grammes of cocaine in a commercial bus along Abuja-Gwagwalada road on Monday 26th April, 2021, based on intelligence, while Bello was intercepted with 200grammes of the illicit drug in Zuba area of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, on the same day through a controlled delivery operation.
This was revealed on Wednesday in a statement released by the NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in Abuja.
The statement revealed Okoro was an intending to travel to Libya through Kano and Agadez in Niger Republic, with wraps of cocaine weighing 900 grammes before his arrest, while the other seizure of 200 grammes was made following intelligence.
The FCT Commander of NDLEA, Mohammed Malami Sokoto, said, “The wraps of cocaine were not to be swallowed as has always been the case, but to be concealed in Jerry cans of palm oil and transported through the border in Kano to Agadez and Libya. The suspect, Emeka Okoro revealed that this has been the trend in the past months.”
