Four susapected drug traffickers, Ejiofor Eliezer (46), Obah Francis (30), Akpa Sobuzochukwu (27) and 36-year-old Ike Okechukwu are currently being held by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. They were arrested during the screening of passengers on board Qatar and Emirates airlines at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos for attempting to smuggle cocaine to Brazil.
The four men were said to have excreted 171 wraps of drug that tested positive for cocaine.
Eliezer, who excreted 100 wraps of cocaine, said he was pushed to peddle drugs due to poverty.
“I live in Brazil, where I work in a supermarket and lived with my wife and four children. Life in Brazil is tough because I live from hand to mouth. It was poverty that made me to smuggle drugs. I took risk by swallowing 100 wraps of cocaine for N200,000 because of poverty.”
Francis said he went into drug trafficking out of frustration due to the meager salary he was being paid at a bakery in Brazil. Read the rest at the flip...
“I am single and have been working in Brazil for two years. At present, I work in a bakery and my salary is meager. My plan was to give the drug to a friend in Dubai, but he did not come to collect the drug as planned. This was how I had to come to Nigeria with the drug. I blame my friend for my arrest because I would have made S15,000 (about N2.8m) from the deal.”
On his part, Sobuzochukwu, who holds a diploma in accounting, but works as a cleaner said the meager salary earned made him to ingest 26 wraps of cocaine for a fee of S1,500 (about N285,000).
Okechukwu said he thought he would not be found out because he only ingested five wraps of the drug.
“I regret my involvement in drug trafficking. I dropped out of school in Junior Secondary School class two and I work in a toy company in Brazil,” he added.
The NDLEA Chairman, Ahmadu Giade, said Brazil-Nigeria route is prone to drug trafficking and urged officers to be vigilant.
“The suspects will soon be charged to court,” Giade stated.
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