A 53-year-old physically challenged man, Ehiarimwiam Osaromo Emmanuel, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the departure hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos for drug trafficking.
Ehiarimwiam was arrested on his way to Italy, via Doha on a Qatar Airways flight.
An indigene of Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State, he was found to have concealed five thousand (5,000) 225 mg tablets of Tramadol in his luggage.
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In a statement signed by the NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi, preliminary investigation shows the suspect is a frequent traveller who often travels with numerous bags containing mainly food items, body cream, hair attachments and drinks.
The suspect was said to have presented his usual large consignment to NDLEA operatives for search but held on to some packages, which were retrieved from him and properly searched during which the drugs were discovered.
Editor Oloyede Oworu
