NDLEA Arrest India-Bound ‘Fake Couple’ With 184 Wraps Of Cocaine Intercepts Other Drugs Consignment

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has announced the arrest of one Mr. Ilonzeh Kingsley Onyebuchi and Mrs. Ilonzeh Roseline Nonyelum, purportedly going for medical treatment in India for ingesting 184 wraps of cocaine weighing 3.322 kilograms with 100grams of the drug concealed in the woman’s private part.

According to NDLEA, the two suspects were intercepted at the Lagos airport on Tuesday while attempting to board an Ethiopian Airline flight to India.

This was disclosed in a statement issued by Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, in Abuja.

The anti-narcotic agency stated that the suspects’ travel documents depicted them as a couple and a body scan by the NDLEA operatives confirmed they had ingested drugs.

According to the NDLEA, a preliminary investigation revealed they obtained travel documents in the same surname to beat security checks at the airport, adding that one of the suspects confessed she was recruited in her church in Aba, Abia State.

The agency said, “the suspect, Ilonzeh Roseline Nonyelum (aka Ngogbike Nkechi) stated further that she is a divorcee, and that Kingsley with whom she was travelling is not her husband but connected only for the purpose of the illicit drug business trip”.

NDLEA further stated that a further search on one of the suspects led to a discovery of a big size wrap of cocaine that weighed 100 grams inserted into her private part, confessing she was promised $5,000 upon successfully delivering the drug in India.

The second suspect, Kingsley, also claimed he was promised $2,000 after successfully delivering the drug in India and excreted 82 wraps of cocaine with a gross weight of 1.822kgs in five excretions, the agency claimed.