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The agents of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested a former international football player, Segun George Hunkarin, together with his businessman’s partner, Ntuuka Emmanuel Chintadu, for the attempt to smuggle a cocaine expedition to Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, (Mmia) Ikeja. Lagos.
The spokesman for Ndlea said, Femi Babafemi Chindu, who is a frequent flyer known for having transmitted clothes from Turkey to Nigeria and food from Nigeria to Turkey, was the first to be arrested on his arrival at Lagos airport on Tuesday 24 June 2025.
“A search for his transport bag has revealed 37 compresses of cocaine that weighs 800 grams in it.
“The investigations showed that the suspicion came from Turkey on the flight of Ethiopian airlines, but transit through Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, where he collected the luggage from another person before heading to Nigeria.
Further checks revealed that an accomplice that proved to be the former professional footballer, Segun Hunkarin, was waiting for Chintadu at the airport carpark to collect the expedition from him. Hunkarin who remained years in Brazil playing for football teams was promptly monitored and arrested at the parking lot, “he said.
In his statement, Hunkarin said that while playing professional football in the South American country, he had only drug trafficking twice from Brazil to Ethiopia, but never brought it to Nigeria.
Likewise, aThe businessman based in Noher Europa, Amen Okoro Godstime, was on Friday 27 June arrested by the agents Ndlea at Lagos airport while attempting to traffick 5,000 Plotolo 225mg pills packaged as malaria drugs known as Lonart, Amatem and Aluktem in Spain.
It was intercepted in the departure room of terminal 2 of the airport during the external authorization of passengers on the Royal Air Maroc flight to Spain through Casablanca.
Okoro, who is in transport and logistics activities between Europe and Nigeria, said that on his arrival in Spain, he would have risen aboard a train in France, where he resides and from there he would send the Tramadol expedition to Italy for retail.
At Akanu Ibiam (Aiia) international airport, Enugu, Agents Ndlea on Friday 27 June an assistant from the bar based in Maputo, in Mozambique, Ezenwaka Chibuzor Emmanuel intercepted. A search for his luggage led to the discovery of 17 packages of cardboard size of methamphetamine weighing 17,500 kilograms and three cocaine packages weighing 3,050 kilograms.
The 38 -year -old suspect came from Johannesburg, South Africa, through Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, on the flight of Ethiopian airlines when it was interdicted and subjected to a research during which the illegal drugs hidden in sheets of beds packaged in its bags were discovered.
Another passenger aboard the same flight as Ethiopi airlines, the 54 -year -old, Azu Follygan Kpodar, was also intercepted at Enugu airport by the NDLEA agents. When Azu, who came from San Paolo, in Brazil, was searched, a plastic liquid soap container marked with Ype, was discovered in his luggage. The substance was promptly taken for the analysis at the Forensic and Chemical Laboratory Ndlea, enugu in which the substance was positive for cocaine.
The substance, which proved to be a liquid cocaine weighed 1,250 kg. The suspect who is a toast to toy toy seller, Sao Paulo, in Brazil, said he purchased the substance during shopping for his wedding ceremony in Nigeria.
In the meantime, the agents Ndlea in the border area of Badagry seed in Lagos on Tuesday 24 June intercepted a 26 year old, Beninese, Vest-Juck, while trying to smuggle 69 Skunk balls, a cannabis voltage with a gross weight of 29.5 kg, from the Beninica Republic in Nigeria.
In the state of Kwara, a notorious drug trader, Mary Bolanle Oladele (Aka Iya Nafi), was arrested on Wednesday 25 June when the agents of Ndlea broke into its base in Omu-Aran in the area of the local government of Irepodun where they were recovered by her.
A 72 -year -old grandmother, Mrs. Christy Ejaro, was on Tuesday 24 June arrested by the agents Ndlea in the area of the Niger Cat of Warri, in the Delta State. Several sachets of packaged skitks of retail have been recovered by her.
The war against the abuse of drugs, the Wada, the social defense activities of Ndlea are equally continued throughout the country last week. Some of them include: Wada awareness lesson delivered to the students and staff of the Yakubawa Model Primary School, Zanego, Katsina; Police Secondary School, Igboora, Oyo; Divine favor of the international group of schools, LGA bandages, Abia; Command Day Secondary School, Ojoo, Ibadan; Mater of colleges, Udi, Enugu; Community Girls Secondary School, Yenagoa, Bayelsa; And the high school of Fiyinfolu, Ikole Ekiti, among others.
While praised the officers and men of Mmia, Aiia, Delta, Kwara and semi -seeds of the Agency for the arrests and convulsions of last week, president/CEO of Ndlea, Brig. General Mohamed Buba Marwa (RTD) praised their counterparties in all commands across the country to guarantee a fair balance between their reduction in the offer of drug and efforts reduction of drug demand.
