The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have thwarted what it described as a desperate attempt by a woman, Ihensekhien Miracle Obehi, to export large consignments of cocaine concealed in her private part, stomach and false bottom of her handbag to Iran at the Port Harcourt International Airport in Rivers State.

This was disclosed by the NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement made available to Channels Television on Sunday.

Babafemi said that Obehi, who was dressed in hijab to beat security checks, was intercepted at the departure hall of the Port Harcourt airport on Sunday May 3, 2025, while trying to board a Qatar Airline flight to Iran via Doha following credible intelligence.

He disclosed that during a search on Obehi, she was found to have inserted three wraps of cocaine in her private part, and two large parcels hidden in false compartments of her handbag while she swallowed 67 pellets of the Class A drug.

As a result, she was said to have been placed under excretion observation and after four excretions that lasted days, she expelled the 67 wraps of the substance in her stomach.

According to Babafemi, Obehi claimed she was to swallow 70 pellets of cocaine but after ingesting 67 pieces she could no longer swallow the remaining three and decided to insert them into her private part.

The total weight of the three consignments hidden in different parts of her body comes to 2.523 kilograms, according to the NDLEA.

In a related operation, NDLEA said its operatives at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos on Friday 9th May intercepted a 22-year-old British national, Campell Kaizra Kofi Johannes Slifer coming from Thailand through Doha on Qatar Airways flight with two suitcases loaded with 35 parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis weighing 37.60kg.

Campell, who claimed he had twice been convicted in the UK for drug trafficking and robbery, said he was recruited in London to travel to Thailand to pick the illicit consignment and bring the same to Nigeria, the NDLE said.

In Niger state, NDLEA disclosed that its officers acting on intelligence on Wednesday 7th May intercepted a fuel truck marked ABJ 693 XU and three other vehicles loaded with 246 bags of skunk, a strain of cannabis with a combined weight of 3, 047 kilograms along Suleja-Kaduna road.

It added that four suspects arrested with the exhibits include: Christopher Onyema, 47; Benedict Etineruba Young, 54; Chukwudi Ujue Jerry, 30; and Mohammed Abdullahi Danasabe.

Apart from the fuel truck, three other vehicles recovered from the suspects include: Honda Odyssey bus marked YAB 667 CZ; Gulf bus with registration number GWA 125 TQ and

Honda Odyssey bus marked ABJ 230 CN. (Channels TV, but headline rejigged)

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