India-bound ‘couple’ excretes 184 wraps of cocaine at Lagos airport

<p>In his statement, Kingsley, who was into clothing business in Onitsha, Anambra claimed he was promised $2,000 after a successful delivery of the drug in India.</p>, <span>India-bound ‘couple’ excretes 184 wraps of cocaine at Lagos airport. Facebook:NDLEA</span>, <h2>Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA) have arrested a fake couple, Kingsley and Roseline Ilonzeh for ingesting 184 wraps of cocaine.</h2>, <p>The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.</p>, <p>He said that the suspected drug traffickers were purportedly going for medical treatment in India.</p>, <p>Babafemi said that the drugs weigh 3.322Kg, while another 100 grammes of the drug was concealed in the woman’s private part.</p>, <p>He said that the two suspects were intercepted at the Screening Point 1, Terminal 1 of the international wing of the Lagos airport on Aug. 1, while attempting to board an Ethiopian airline flight to India.</p>, <p>Babafemi further said that though their travel documents showed consistency in their names and depicted them as couple, an NDLEA officer however, decided to subject them to body scan.</p>, <p>He said that the scan confirmed the couple ingested drugs as a result of which they were later placed on excretion observation at the agency’s facility.</p>, <p>”Their travel documents identify the man as Ilonzeh Kingsley Onyebuchi and the lady to be Ilonzeh Roseline Nonyelum.</p>, <p>“Preliminary investigation reveals that the intending passengers are not a couple but obtained the travel documents in the same surname to beat security checks at the airport.</p>, <p>“The lady later gave her real name as Ngogbike Nkechi. During interview, she confessed that she was recruited in her Church in Aba, Abia where she lives.</p>, <p>“The suspect, Ilonzeh Roseline Nonyelum (aka Ngogbike Nkechi) states further that she is a divorcee and that Kingsley, with whom she is travelling is not her husband but connected only for the purpose of the illicit drug bu