The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has caught two businessmen with exhibits at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja — the capital of Nigeria.
They reportedly excreted 193 pellets of the illegal products following a three day stay in observatory custody.
On May 10, the agency intercepted the traffickers — a 49-year-old Onoh Ebere and 47-year-old Ifeanyi Ogbuji at the Abuja airport as they arrived from Uganda through Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa.
Confirming the development in Abuja on Sunday May 14 in a statement, the spokesperson of the agency said the two have businesses they run in Nigeria but their original source of wealth has been drug trafficking.
“They both travelled to Uganda and from there crossed over to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where they picked the consignments before returning to Abuja with Lagos as their final destination.
“After days in the excretion room, Ebere Onoh excreted a total of 100 pellets weighing 2.137kgs while Christian Ifeanyi Ogbuji expelled 93 pellets hidden in his stomach with a gross weight of 1.986kgs,” Babafemi said.
Tinubu won’t lead Nigeria from foreign countries — Onanuga
Bayo Onanuga — a media agent of the Nigeria’s president elect Senator Bola Tinubu has said his principal will not lead the country from a foreign land when he assumes office.
He went on television to narrate what Tinubu would likely venture into in his first ten days in power.
Onanuga reacted to the claim by some Nigerians that his principal was not physically fit and could end up running the affairs of the country from abroad like the outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari at a time.
The former managing director of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said his boss will not be exercising his responsibility from a foreign country.
Onanuga said, “You cannot imagine the kind of pressure people who are looking for positions in the government are piling on ordinary members of the committee, not to talk of the president-elect. People have been bringing all manner of requests.
“So, as the press release rightly pointed out, the travel was just to avoid pressure and distraction.
“He wanted to go to London to see his grandchildren, but I think that at the last minute he decided not to go. He came back home instead.
“Also, he was in Saudi Arabia before the elections, so he decided not to go there again. So he decided to cut those ones and then decided to come home.”
He also added that: “I believe he would do so. But you know we now live in a global village, as they say.
“So, even if he is in Russia, he can hold zoom meetings and do all kinds of things. But I can assure you that he will be here physically to do his job. He will not be an absentee kind of president,” he added.
The incumbent president Buhari and the president-in-waiting Tinubu are by coincidence out of country.
