The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested two Nigerians residing in Europe after they allegedly ingested 200 wraps of cocaine weighing 3.46 kilogrammes while attempting to travel from Abuja to Paris, France.
The suspects were arrested on Wednesday, 28 October, during the outward clearance of an Air France flight, AF 832, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
According to a statement issued on Sunday by the NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, both men tested positive for drug ingestion during body scans and subsequently excreted all the cocaine under observation.
One of the suspects, who lives in France and works in a factory, reportedly arrived in Nigeria on 21 October for a short holiday.
The agency said he admitted to ingesting 110 wraps of cocaine, weighing 1.901 kilogrammes, which were recovered after he excreted them.
His co-traveller also tested positive during a body scan and confessed to swallowing 90 wraps of cocaine. The drugs, which he subsequently excreted, weighed 1.559 kilogrammes.
The arrests were part of a series of operations conducted by the agency across the country, leading to the seizure of substantial quantities of cannabis, controlled drugs and other illicit substances, as well as the arrest of several suspects.
In Lagos, NDLEA operatives intercepted two commercial buses transporting a combined 976 kilogrammes of cannabis, popularly known as skunk.
The first operation was carried out on Sunday, 25 October, along Kudirat Abiola Way, Ikeja, where officers recovered 537 kilogrammes of cannabis from a white Volkswagen LT 28 bus.
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