Hairstylist, Jenifer Onyejegbu Arrested with N30bn Worth of Cocaine At Murtala Muhammed International Airport

About a week after the new Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa has vowed to dismantle drug trafficking cartels across Nigeria, the agency has made huge seizures of cocaine and heroin, valued at over N30billion at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.

This was contained in a statement issued by the agency on Saturday.

The Commander at the Airport, Ahmadu Garba said “On the 27th of January 2021, at about 1:20pm during the inward clearance of Ethiopian Airline passengers at the E- arrival hall of the Airport, a female passenger by name Onyejegbu Ifesinachi Jennifer, 33 years, who arrived Nigeria from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Addis Ababa, was intercepted by NDLEA operatives.

“As a standard operating procedure, all passengers to and from high risk countries are always profiled using passengers’ manifest.

“Unfortunately, the above-named suspect was targeted. Consequently, she was taken to NDLEA office at the Airport, where her bags were searched thoroughly, and in the process, whitish powdery substances were found concealed inside 16 pieces of duvet contained in her two travel bags.

“Field test was conducted on the recovered substances and proved positive to Cocaine and weighed 26.850kilograms.

“During the interrogation, the suspect who is a hair stylist and based in Brazil was interviewed and she confessed to have agreed to smuggle the hard drug for the sum of two million naira (N2,000,000) only.

” She however refused to disclose the names of her associates but she mentioned that she was asked to hand over the drugs to another person. The street value of this singular seizure is put at over N21billion,”