NDLEA have arrested a businessman, Kingsley Celestino at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos over 9.40 kilograms of heroin concealed in false bottoms of his two travelling bags.
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a 49-year-old businessman, Kingsley Celestino, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State with 9.40 kilograms of heroin concealed in his two travelling bags.
Kingsley, a native of Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State, was arrested at Terminal 2 of the airport on his way to India on Saturday.
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested an India-bound businessman identified as Kingsley Celestino, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos over 9.40 kg of heroin concealed in false bottoms of his travelling bags.
According to a statement by the NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, Celestino, a business class passenger on a Qatar Airline flight was arrested at Terminal 2 of the MMIA on Saturday while on his way to India.
The 49-year-old businessman who hails from Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State in the South-East region of Nigeria was travelling with a Guinean passport.
Babafemi stated that preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect frequently travels to India on business class tickets, as he claimed that he deals in the clothing business and travels between Nigeria and India. It was further established that he obtained the Guinean passport in Guinea Bissau, where he said his mother came from.
“In the same vein, a 24-year-old passenger travelling to Oman, Etounu Monday, was intercepted at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Monday, February 27, during the outward clearance of Ethiopian Airline flight ET 950 while attempting to export 1.924kg of skunk concealed in cream tubes.”
Also, at the Tincan seaport, Lagos, the NDLEA operatives on Friday, March 3, recovered 244 parcels of Canadian Loud weighing 79 kilograms concealed in medium size wooden sound system speakers packed inside two out of four used vehicles in a container marked CRSU9258348 coming from Toronto via Montreal, Canada. The imported vehicles used as cover for the drugs are a 2009 Jeep Wrangler and a 2009 Honda Ridgeline.
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