Posted by Amarachi on Sun 29th Aug, 2021 - tori.ng
The suspect who imports clothes for sale excreted 87 pellets of cocaine weighing 1.884 kilograms.
Eze Celestine Okorie
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a drug dealer, Eze Celestine Okorie who was intercepted with 4.15kilograms of methamphetamine consignment going to London, the United Kingdom at the NAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, on 13th August.
The drug was concealed in tins of tomato branded ‘sunripe’ and packaged for the driver of a freight forwarding company to deliver at the airport export shed for onward movement to the UK.
Babafemi said although the freight company’s driver was initially arrested, follow up investigations and subsequent sting operations led to the arrest of the kingpin behind the consignment, Eze Celestine Okorie, at his Coker, Surulere, Lagos home on Wednesday 25th August 2021. He hails from Isu village in Onicha LGA, Ebonyi State.