NDLEA makes first arrest at Akanu Ibiam Airport

Just few weeks after the jubilation that greeted the commencement of international flights at the newly- upgraded Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has made its first arrest and cocaine seizure. The suspect, Chizoba Anselem Nwabuwa, 32-year-old 400 Level Fine and Applied Arts student of the Nnamdi Azikwe University, Awka, Anambra State, was apprehended during the inward screening of passengers on an Ethiopian flight from Brazil enroute Addis-Ababa. He was found to have ingested liquid cocaine packed inside male condoms. The head of the NDLEA at the Airport, Mr Nsikak-Abasi Udoh, who confirmed the arrest, said that the suspect excreted 25 wraps of a liquid that tested positive for cocaine. “The suspect excreted 25 wraps of liquid substance. When tested with the United Nations drug testing kit, it tested positive for cocaine weighing 1.250kg. This first arrest and seizure is exciting to us because we just commenced operations” Nsikak-Abasi said. According to the suspect, “I am a 400 level student of Fine & Applied Arts, Nnamdi Azikwe University, Awka, I wanted to use N500,000 they promised to pay me in developing my art gallery.