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Auto Parts Dealer, Businesswoman Apprehended Over UK-bound Opioids, Cocaine Hidden in Custard

  • Writer: Esther
    Esther
  • Sep 15, 2024
  • 2 min read

The NDLEA operatives have arrested Adewunmi Adebola Dorcas, an Ibadan-based businesswoman, and her son, following the interception of a cargo at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

The consignment, bound for the United Kingdom, contained 924 bottles of codeine-based syrup weighing 135.70kg and 5,250 tablets of Rohypnol hidden in cartons of foodstuffs.


According to a statement released by the agency's spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, the freight agent, Owojori Olanrewaju Sunday, who presented the cargo for export, was promptly arrested.

Further investigation led to the arrest of another suspect, Adewunmi Akeem Temitope, who claimed that his mother, Mrs. Adewunmi Adebola Dorcas, sent the consignment from Ibadan to deliver to the agent. A follow-up operation on September 7th resulted in Mrs. Adewunmi's arrest in Ibadan, where she deals in foodstuffs and cargo export.

In a related operation, NDLEA operatives intercepted some cartons of auto spare parts and Checkers powder custard going to Congo Brazzaville on Ethiopian Airlines.


A diligent search revealed 300 grams of cocaine concealed in the containers of Checkers powder custard packed together with auto parts. This led to the arrest of Arinze Ora, who deals in auto parts at Shop 12, Block 7 Aspanda Trade Fair Auto Parts Wing, Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos.


Additionally, the NDLEA's Special Operations Unit arrested two brothers, Ikechukwu and Ugochukwu Ikeabba, who were sponsors of drug traffickers specializing in exporting drugs by ingestion to Vietnam.

Their arrest followed a thorough investigation into the earlier apprehension of Ibeanusi Solomon Nosike, an Onitsha-based businessman who excreted 68 wraps of cocaine weighing 1.282 kilograms after 12 days of excretion observation. Nosike was arrested on August 8th, 2024, at the old domestic terminal of the Lagos airport while attempting to board a flight to Abuja, where he was scheduled to join a Qatar Airways flight to Vietnam.




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