A 26-year old man, Aloysius Ajuruchukwu Onyekwe (a.k.a Kelvin) has been arrested by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for allegedly ingesting 47 wraps of cocaine.
It was gathered that Aloysius, who was to travel by road to Algeria, was intercepted in Ibadan, Oyo state, following intelligence shared by the Department of State Security, DSS.
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NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, in a statement said the suspect was arrested on Sunday, July 3, at Ojo park Ibadan where he went to board a vehicle enroute Sokoto to Algeria. He was said to have been traveling with an 18-year-old lady, Blessing Nwoke.
The statement further narrated that the father of a 10-month-old child who passed out the 47 pellets of cocaine in five excretions confessed that he began his journey to Algeria from Cele area of Okota, Lagos where he ingested the banned drug, weighing 1.1kg.
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