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VIDEOS: Two Brazil returnees excrete 116 wraps of heroin, cocaine in NDLEA custody
Two Brazil returnees have excreted 116 wraps of heroin and cocaine after days in the custody National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesperson, in
a statement on Sunday, said the suspects, Ofoma Sunday and Ukachukwu Ikechukwu, were arrested at the Lagos airport and excreted the substances after days in observatory custody.
According to the statement, Ofoma, 46, was arrested on September 16 on his arrival from Laos, Brazil, and was taken for a body scan, which confirmed ingestion of illicit drugs.
“Ofoma had left Nigeria for Brazil on 3rd September to courier the consignment to Lagos for a reward of $2,500 upon successful delivery,” the statement reads.
Babafemi stated further that a follow-up operation was conducted at Eliata hotel in Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos, where Ofoma was instructed to meet one Nweke Chukwudi, who was designated to oversee the excretion of the drugs at the hotel and recover them.
He said Nweke, 55, was arrested during the operation, while Ofoma excreted 111 wraps of heroin weighing 1.452 kilogrammes in eight rounds.
Babafemi said Ikechukwu was arrested on September 19 during the inward clearance of Ethiopian Airlines passengers from Brazil via Addis Ababa.
He said a body scan confirmed illicit drug ingestion, and under observation, he expelled five wraps of cocaine weighing 145 grammes.
The anti-narcotic agency’s spokesperson said that Ikechukwu confessed to having bought nine wraps of the drug in Brazil, inserting all into his anus — a process that took him nearly two hours.
“During his transit through Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, he said he began to experience severe anal pain and decided to remove the wraps from his body,” Babafemi said.
Babafemi said Ikechukwu admitted that he could only reinsert seven wraps and flushed the remaining two down a toilet to catch his connecting flight to Nigeria.
“The suspect revealed that while on board his flight to Nigeria, he felt pressured and uncomfortable, which compelled him to use the lavatory. During the process, he expelled an additional two wraps, leaving him with only five wraps in his anus,” he said.
Babafemi said Ikechukwu claimed he was into the clothing business before travelling to Brazil in 2017 and later moved to the United States in 2020, where he was arrested for an immigration offence, detained for over a year, and deported to Nigeria in 2022.
In March 2025, he returned to Brazil, where he currently works, having obtained a Brazilian residence permit.
Babafemi said on September 15, NDLEA operatives at the NAHCO export shed of the Lagos airport intercepted a consignment of food items used to conceal 40 wraps of methamphetamine with a total weight of 2.30 kilogrammes heading to Hong Kong via Turkish Airlines.
He said Umelo Venatus, a 59-year-old suspect who presented the consignment as part of a consolidated cargo, was taken into custody.
He said another consignment of illicit drugs packaged for Europe was intercepted at a courier company in Lagos on September 18.
Babafemi said during an examination of the shipment, seven pieces of phone charger going to New Zealand were found to contain 257 grammes of cocaine.