NDLEA busts woman with drugs in fake pregnancy

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 35-year-old Kano-based businesswoman, Rabi Muhammad, for trying to ferry consignments of cocaine and opioids hidden in a fake baby bump through the Seme border in Lagos.

Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, in a statement said Muhammed was intercepted during a search last Monday.

He said a search, however, showed her baby bump was designed with a pink calabash used to conceal 3,200 capsules of tramadol, which she tied around her stomach and was taking to Cotonou to to Cotonou in Benin Republic.

Babafemi said same day in Kano, their operatives at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano, intercepted a 41-year-old Ivorian, Michael Gohouri (also known as Anunwa Onyinye Michael), during the clearance on Ethiopian Airlines’ flight ET940 to Milan, Malpensa via Addis Ababa.

According to the statement, after a scan, he was placed under observation during which he excreted 82 wraps of cocaine weighing 1.49 kilograms.

He said Gohouri had arrived Lagos from Milan on January 17, this year and was shuttling from Lagos to Enugu for three weeks.

“He later travelled to Kano where he stayed for one week before ingesting the cocaine consignment in his hotel room.

“He’s expected to be paid 5,000 Euros when he delivers the drugs in Milan.

“The suspect, who hails from Reu duce Avenue 13 Abidjan, Cote d’ivoire claimed his father, Bade Gohouri, is an Ivorian while his mother is from Anunwa compound, Urunnebo village Ukwan in Enugu State.