Nov 28, 2013 – Nigerian Drug
Dealer Hides Cocaine Inside Loud Speakers: NDLEA Arrests Maduagwu Nnaemeka
Charles In Kano
A 28-year-old Nigerian man
identified as Maduagwu Nnaemeka Charles has been arrested at the Malam Aminu
Kano International Airport, MAKIA, Kano, northwest Nigeria by operatives of the
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, for being in possession of 3kg
high-grade pure cocaine worth N81 million.
Charles was nabbed at Kano
airport on his arrival from Brazil on board Egypt Air Flight No. MS 879.
He had boarded Ethiopian Airline
Flight No. ET 507 from Sao Paulo to Cairo in Egypt from he beat all security
blocks, but luck ran out on him as he arrived MAKIA when operatives of NDLEA
suspected his movement.
Ambrose Umoru, NDLEA Commander
in-charge of MAKIA said it took his men about 14 hours to discover the cocaine
neatly concealed inside two loud speakers.
“His flight arrived on the night
of 20 November. Throughout that night, we searched and searched but could not
discover anything. In the morning of 21 November, my men continued the search
and that was when we discovered white substances concealed inside the loud
speakers and when tested, it turned out to be cocaine.
“From what we observed, the
cocaine was taken to the factory where the speaker was manufactured and they
fitted the substance in the hollow of the speaker, this is a new trick used by
drug merchants to beat security checks.
“I want to make it clear that
Brazil produce highest grade of cocaine in the whole world. There is no way you
can take this one as it is raw directly inside the market. What they do is to
dilute it and when that happens, this 3 kg. could multiply into 9kg. and you
are talking of about N81 million.”
ccording to Umoru, investigation
has shown that the cocaine was to be received and distributed in Kano, “and if
this arrest was not made, the havoc this drug would have caused to our youths
and the society remain unimaginable
“It took the ingenuity of the
eagle-eyed operatives of the Command to discover yet another mode of
concealment by these merchants of death. Let me assure the general public of
the Command’s desire to make MAKIA uncomfortable for drug merchants.
“I also warn drug barons and
couriers that the Agency will continue to discover their modus operandi and nab
them in their criminal act. It is in their best interest to regard MAKIA a
no-go area as any courier that attempts to use this airport would be promptly
arrested.”
Charles in a chat with newsmen
admitted to have been in possession of two loud speakers, but denied knowledge
of the dangerous substances concealed inside them.
“Yes I was caught with 3 kg of
Cocaine but I didn’t know what I was carrying. I was only trying to help a
stranger who identified himself as a Nigerian in Brazil
“When I was making call, he
discovered I was travelling to Nigeria and he pleaded with me to assist him
deliver the loud speakers to somebody here in Kano.
“He gave me an MTN Sim card and
asked me to activate it once I got to Nigeria so that the owner of the loud
speakers would call me for his property, but little did I know that cocaine was
concealed inside the loud speakers. I don’t even know the owner, I was just
trying to help,” he lamented. Charles said he had survived in Brazil for a year
and six months loading trucks at the park, “all this while, I have engaged in
menial jobs. The last job I got before leaving for Nigeria was in a lorry park
where I load trucks. These menial jobs have been sustaining me; I don’t know
how I got myself into this mess.”
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