A 56 year- old woman and a mother of four, Mrs. Ajisegiri Kehinde Sidika, was apprehended by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos, over her attempt to traffic 400 grams of cocaine concealed in her footwear to Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
The suspect, who claimed to be a businesswoman trading in adults’ and children’ s clothes on Lagos Island, was apprehended on Sunday, November 13th, while attempting to board a Qatar Airways flight traveling to Saudi Arabia via Doha.
It was reported tha the pair of sandals she was wearing were subjected to a thorough investigation, and it was discovered that they contained two packages of cocaine totaling 400 grams each.
In another news, one Ayoade Kehinde Tayo, who sold tricycle parts, attempted to send 1 kilogram of Tramadol 225mg and Rohypnol to Istanbul, Turkey via Cairo on an Egypt Airline flight the same day, before he was subsequently arrested.
However, the NDLEA operatives apprehended him and prevented him from carrying out his plan.
The suspect was at the airport with the intention of handing over the drugs that were concealed within a bag of food items to an intended passenger named Idowu Ayoade, but he was detained before he was able to do so successfully.
