NDLEA Arrests Two Drug Kingpins at Lagos and Port Harcourt Airports

NDLEA Arrests Two Drug Kingpins at Lagos and Port Harcourt Airports

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has successfully apprehended two suspected drug kingpins at Port Harcourt International Airport and Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. 

The suspects were caught after excreting a total of 125 wraps of heroin.

NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi confirmed the arrests, detailing that the first suspect, Onyekwonike Elochuckwu Sylvanus, 30, was apprehended at Port Harcourt Airport on February 2. 

He was using a Sierra Leonean passport under the alias Kargbo Mohamed Foday. Following a body scan that indicated drug ingestion, Sylvanus excreted 62 wraps of heroin, weighing 1.348 kilograms.