NDLEA ARREST MAN AT THE AIRPORT AS HE TRIES TO SMUGGLE $34K:

   

A  young man ,Ozoh Ikenna was arrested yesterday October 9th at  popular Murtala  Muhammed Air­port, Ikeja, Lagos, by men of the National Drug Law En­forcement Agency (NDLEA) as he tried to smuggle  23 wraps containing 34 thousand dollars out of the country. Ozoh Ikenna was on his way to Brazil in an Etihad Airways flight, that would should first  stop at Abu Dhabi, when he was arrested after customs spotted the money, packed in wraps similar to narcotics and hidden  in his boxer shorts, during screening of passengers.

   NDLEA Airport commander, Ah­madu Garba said this to  journalists.

“The wraps of dollars found on Ozoh Ikenna were detected with the help of a scanning machine. We also con­ducted a follow-up operation where a man Ogbo Emmanuel , who gave Ozoh the $34,000 dollars, was arrested,” the commander stated.

 A representative of As­sets and Financial Investigation direc­torate Mrs Victoria Egbase said the investigation conducted revealed that the suspects are involved in the money laundering of substantial amount of illicit drug proceeds.

She said :

“We were able to trace over N226,000,000 to one bank account belonging to the second suspect, Ogbo Emmanuel. The account name is Eter­nal God International Limited”.
Ozoh, said this in his statement, he was only a courier.

He said :

“I live in Brazil since 2008. I was paid to smuggle the $34,000 to Brazil. They promised to pay me five per cent. I agreed to smuggle the money to alleviate my financial hardship. I could not swallow the wraps so I de­cided to hide it in my underpants”