A woman identified as Mrs Nonyelum Ilonzeh, was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
Ilonzeh, who hide cocaine in her private part, was arrested with her fake husband identified as Mr Onyebuchi Ilonzeh.
184 wraps of cocaine weighing 3.322 kilograms with 100grams of the drug were hidden in the woman’s private part.
The two suspects were while attempting to board an Ethiopian airline flight to India.
They were stopped at Screening Point 1, Terminal 1 of the international wing of the Lagos airport on Tuesday, August 1, 2023.
The spokesperson for the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi revealed on Sunday, that: “Though their travel documents show consistency in their names and depict them as a couple, an NDLEA officer, however, decided to subject them to a body scan. The scan confirmed they both ingested drugs as a result of which they were later placed on excretion observation at the Agency’s facility.
“While their travel documents identify the man as Onyebuchi Ilonzeh and the lady to be Nonyelum Ilonzeh, preliminary investigation revealed that the intending passengers were not a couple but obtained the travel documents in the same surname to beat security checks at the airport. The lady later gave her real name as Nkechi Ngogbike,”
Babafemi further noted that during her interview, Ngogbike confessed that she was recruited in her church in Aba, Abia state where she lives.
The suspect, Ngogbike Nkechi aka Nonyelum Ilonzeh stated further that she is a divorcee, and that Mr Ilonzeh with whom she was travelling is not her husband but connected only for the purpose of the illicit drug business trip.
She revealed that her arranged husband, Kingsley brought the pellets of cocaine to her in her room to ingest in the hotel where they were both lodged in separate rooms the previous day Monday, July 31.
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