By Anthony Isaac
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Sunday disclosed that its operatives at the Port Harcourt International Airport foiled an attempt by an Iran-bound woman, Ihensekhien Miracle Obehi to smuggle 2.5kg cocaine aboard a Qatar Airline with some of the substance hidden in her private part.
The woman also swallowed some of the pellets while some were hidden at a false bottom of her handbag. Obehi, who was dressed in hijab to beat security checks, was intercepted at the departure hall of the Port Harcourt airport on Sunday 3rd May 2025 while trying to board a Qatar Airline flight to Iran via Doha.
The agency in a statement by its Spokesman, Femi Babafemi also disclosed that its operatives also at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, 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.
Babafemi stated that following credible intelligence, during a search, 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.
According to him, “As a result, she was placed under excretion observation and after four excretions that lasted days, she expelled the 67 wraps of the substance in her stomach.
“She 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.
He added: “In like manner, NDLEA operatives at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, 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.
