The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) weekend arrested a fake couple, Mr Onyebuchi Ilonzeh, and his partner in crime, identified as Mrs Nonyelum Ilonzeh, purportedly going for medical treatment in India.
It was discovered that they ingested 184 wraps of cocaine weighing 3.322 kilograms with 100grams of the drug also concealed in the woman’s vagina.
The two s were intercepted at Screening Point 1, Terminal 1 of the international wing of the Lagos airport on Tuesday, August 1, 2023, while attempting to board an Ethiopian airline flight to India.
“Though their travel documents show consistency in their names and depict them as a couple, an NDLEA officer, however, decided to subject them to a body scan. The scan confirmed they both ingested drugs as a result of which they were later placed on excretion observation at the Agency’s facility.
“While their travel documents identify the man as Onyebuchi Ilonzeh and the lady to be Nonyelum Ilonzeh, preliminary investigation revealed that the intending passengers were not a couple but obtained the travel documents in the same surname to beat security checks at the airport. The lady later gave her real name as Nkechi Ngogbike,” the spokesperson for the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi revealed Sunday.
Babafemi noted that during her interview, Ngogbike confessed that she was recruited in her church in Aba, Abia state where she lives.