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Turkey-bound Angolan businessman excretes 120 wraps of Cocaine at Kano airport
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency ( NDLEA) have arrested 42-year-old Angolan businessman Mbala Dajou Abuba at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano, for attempting to traffic a large consignment of cocaine, which he ingested, to Istanbul, Turkey.
NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, who announced the arrest in a statement on Sunday, said Abuba, who is from the Zaire province in Angola, was arrested on Tuesday, 25th February 2025, at the screening point of the Kano airport while trying to board Egypt Air flight MS 880 to Istanbul, Turkey, via Cairo.
“After his body scan result confirmed he ingested an illicit drug, he was thereafter placed under excretion observation, during which he expelled 120 pellets of cocaine weighing 1.829 kilograms in seven excretions. In his statement, the suspect claimed he was in the business of township delivery services in Angola before delving into the illicit drug trade,” Babafemi said.