Motorcycle parts dealer arrested for allegedly trafficking £3.8m worth of cocaine in footwear sole
A 34-year-old motorcycle parts dealer was arrested by officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport for allegedly trafficking £3.8m worth of cocaine.
Parcels of the substance suspected to be cocaine were carefully concealed in the soles of footwears, reports say.
The suspect, identified as Kingsley Okolo, would have benefited a million Naira if he had been successful.
“The discovery was made in a shipment of shoes during inward screening of passengers on a Turkish airline flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil,” the agency’s spokesperson, Mr Mitchell Ofoyeju said in a statement.
“The cocaine was industrially concealed in the soles of new foot wears.
“It was the last arrest of 2016 at the Abuja airport with an estimated value of 3.8 million pounds.
“There was an arrest at the weekend of a 34-year-old suspect, Kingsley Okolo.
“The suspect who is a motorcycle parts dealer said that he was offered the N1 million to smuggle the drugs to Nigeria.
Ofoyeju told NAN that the suspect was cooperating with the agency on ongoing investigation.
The spokesperson quoted NDLEA chairman, Mr Muhammad Abdallah as saying: “Illicit drug proceeds negatively affect economic development and could be used to corrupt government officials and fund terrorism thereby subjecting mankind to widespread destruction.”
The suspect, Okolo, would soon be charged to court, Ofoyeju said.
