A Ghanaian comedian, Musah Iddrisu, and a Congolese, Inana Cedrick, have been arrested the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
Iddrisu and Cedrick were arrested during
the inward and outward screening of Ethiopian airline passengers
respectively at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu.
NDLEA Commander at the airport, Mr. Udoh
Nsikak-Abasi, said, “Iddrisu was found to have
ingested 450 grammes of
cocaine. He was on his way to Thailand. Cedrick was caught with 1.500
kilogrammes of heroin which he tried importing into the country.
“A third suspect, a Nigerian, John
Nwadilichukwu, was also arrested. He was to receive Cedrick at the
airport, collect the drug and pay him for smuggling the drug.”
The heroin was said to have been hidden inside a luggage.
Twenty-year-old Cedrick, who claimed to
be a secondary school student in Tanzania, said, “I was given the drug
in Nairobi by a Nigerian woman who told me to give the drug to her
husband, Nwadilichukwu, in Enugu.
“I wanted to use the money they promised
to pay me in buying beads for sale in Tanzania. I am a secondary school
student from a poor home.”
Iddrisu, aka Charles Udunehi, who bought the cocaine for $19,000, said he had wanted to sell them in Thailand.
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