Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested two brothers: John Abugu, 43, and Kenneth Abugu, 31, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja, Lagos, with 5kgs cocaine concealed in walls of their suitcases while attempting to board a flight to India.
Femi Babafemi, the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy made this known in a statement issued on Sunday, April 6, 2025.
According to him, the brothers were arrested at the Lagos airport on Thursday 3rd April 2025 following proactive processing of credible intelligence.
India-bound brothers arrested at Lagos airport with 5kg cocaine in walls of suitcases
As NDLEA intercepts UK techie with large consignment of Loud at MMIA; nabs 75-year-old grandpa with skunk in Abia; destroys over 250,000kg cannabis in Cross River pic.twitter.com/PiPxHfYDuf
— NDLEA NIGERIA (@ndlea_nigeria) April 6, 2025
They claimed they were travelling to India for medical treatment but when their suitcases were thoroughly searched by NDLEA officers, whitish powdery substances later confirmed to be cocaine were discovered on the walls of their bags.
In a short statement accompanying the video, Babafemi said it must have taken a lot of effort for smugglers to hide cocaine in suitcases with factory-fitting precision.
The statement read, “Narco-trend update: Strewing the walls of suitcases, in factory fitting precision, with cocaine, must have taken lot of efforts and resources but at the end #ndlea_nigeria officers still uncovered all as revealed in these videos that captured the latest seizure by #ndlea,” he said.
The video showed how the agency officials knifed through the suitcases to discover the hard drug perfectly hidden in the walls of the luggage.
In a similar development, NDLEA officers of the MMIA Strategic Command same day, Thursday 3rd April intercepted a 20-year-old Ghanaian-British man, Parker Darren Hazekia Osei, with 36 parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis weighing 19.40kgs packed in a giant travelling bag.
“The suspect who claims he is a student of Computer Science at East London University, UK, was arrested during the inward clearance of passengers on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Bangkok, Thailand, at the E-arrival hall of the Lagos airport.
“In his statement, the techie claims he lives with his parents in the UK but left London about a week ago for Bangkok where he picked up the illicit drug consignment to deliver in Nigeria,” Babafemi said.
In Abia State, NDLEA officers on Saturday 5th April arrested a 75-year-old grandpa, Nna Nnanna Felix with 1.6kgs skunk, a strain of cannabis during a raid at Umunteke Asa, Ukwa West LGA, while another suspect David Chinemerem, 21, was nabbed with 2,050 ampoules of pentazocine at 7 Nnajiego Lane, Umuode road, Aba on Tuesday 1st April.
Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives in Kogi State have arrested a 33-year-old lady, Ngozi Ogili while moving 3kgs of methamphetamine from Lagos to Abuja. She was nabbed in a commercial transport bus along Okene-Lokoja highway on Monday 31st March 2025.
A follow up operation at her point of delivery in Apo mechanic area of Abuja led to the seizure of quantities of Loud and Colorado, both synthetic strains of cannabis.
