Point News247 reports that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a businesswoman heading to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for Umrah (Lesser Hajj), Mrs. Adisa Afusat Olayinka, for alleged drug trafficking.
The agency said the woman ingested 80 pellets of cocaine, which she excreted after her arrest.
Spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, said Mrs. Olayinka, 46, who lives in Ibafo, Ogun State, was arrested on November 24 at the boarding screening area of the airport during an outward clearance of Qatar Airways flight 1418.
She was subsequently taken into custody where she excreted 80 pellets of the drug between November 24 and November 27, Babafemi said in a statement.
The statement reads, “She claimed during interviews that she saved N2.5million over a period of one year to buy the drugs in bits from six different people at Akala, Mushin area of Lagos. The suspect further said she was trading in clothes but had to borrow N1million from three persons to make up the money used to buy the drugs, adding that she spent another N1million to renew her passport, visa and buy return flight tickets.