😱NDLEA Discovers £3.8M Cocaine Inside Shoes At Abuja Airport

Officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja have discovered parcels of whitish substance that tested positive to cocaine weighing 9.15kgs inside soles of shoes.

The discovery was made in a shipment of shoes, during inward screening of passengers on a Turkish airline flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil. The cocaine was industrially concealed in the soles of new foot wears.

The suspected cocaine, according to a statement released on Monday in Lagos by the agency’s spokesperson, Mr Mitchell Ofoyeju, weighed 9.150kgs. “It was the last arrest of 2016 at the Abuja airport with an estimated value of 3.8 million pounds. 

There was an arrest at the weekend of a 34- year old suspect, Kingsley Okolo. The suspect who is a motorcycle parts dealer said that he was offered the N1 million to smuggle the drugs to Nigeria.

Investigation is on going and the suspect is cooperating with our team of undercover officers,” Ofoyeju said.