NDLEA recovers 4kg cocaine soaked in towels from Brazil returnee

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have recovered four kilograms of cocaine soaked in towels from a Brazil returnee at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

Spokesman of the anti-narcotic agency, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, November 27, 2022.

“At the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja, the move by a Brazilian returnee, Iroegbute Ejike Francis, 46, to smuggle 4kg cocaine soaked in towels stuffed in his hand luggage into the country was foiled on Thursday 24th Nov by NDLEA officers who arrested him, upon his arrival on a Qatar Airline flight from Brazil -Doha-Abuja,” the statement read.