A Nigerian, Chika Macillinus Umeugokwe has been arrested for drug trafficking at the Kotoka International Airport, Accra, Ghana.
This is coming barely a week after the arrest of another Nigerian by one of the dogs of Ghana Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
The latest arrest brings to six the number of Nigerians so far arrested for drug related offences in the first two weeks into January,2014.
The 31 years old Chika, who claimed to be a business man had swallowed 69 pellets of heroine weighing one kilogramme with an estimated street value of $ 80,
000 on his arrival from Pakistan, a well-known area for the cultivation of Opium Poppy, the raw material used in manufacturing heroine.
The successful arrest came after the suspect was allowed to go through the formalities but unknown to him, he was been monitored by Drug Law Enforcement officials who followed him outside and subsequently apprehended him.
He later 'excreted' the drugs when the officials took him to their headquarters for interrogations and examination.
His arrest came when two of his accomplices, a Nigerian and a Ghanaian fled after sensing danger after close monitory by officials of Narcotic Control Board on duty at KIA.
A Deputy Executive Secretary in charge of Enforcement at the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), Richard Nii Lante Blankson revealed that the suspect claimed he swallowed 77 pellets of heroin but vomited some in Pakistan before setting off to Ghana.
He indicated that Umeugokwe in his quest to make quick money left the shores of Nigeria late last year, for Ghana by road and left the following day on board Kenya Airways to Nairobi and continued with Ethihad Airlines to Pakistan.
In Pakistan, Nii Lante Blankson stressed that Umeugokwe stayed at the Metro Park Hotel in Islamabad in Pakistan for six weeks where he claimed was aided by a fellow Nigerian called Cosmos to purchase the drugs.
According to him, the suspect claimed he paid $3,500 for 50 pellets of the heroin but Cosmos added 27 to what he had swallowed to be given to his brother on suspect’s arrival in Nigeria, but the suspect vomited some in Pakistan.
He added that the suspect will be arraigned after investigations and further assured the Ghanaian public of NACOB’s commitment to fight the drug trade.
This is coming barely a week after the arrest of another Nigerian by one of the dogs of Ghana Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
The latest arrest brings to six the number of Nigerians so far arrested for drug related offences in the first two weeks into January,2014.
The 31 years old Chika, who claimed to be a business man had swallowed 69 pellets of heroine weighing one kilogramme with an estimated street value of $ 80,
000 on his arrival from Pakistan, a well-known area for the cultivation of Opium Poppy, the raw material used in manufacturing heroine.
The successful arrest came after the suspect was allowed to go through the formalities but unknown to him, he was been monitored by Drug Law Enforcement officials who followed him outside and subsequently apprehended him.
He later 'excreted' the drugs when the officials took him to their headquarters for interrogations and examination.
His arrest came when two of his accomplices, a Nigerian and a Ghanaian fled after sensing danger after close monitory by officials of Narcotic Control Board on duty at KIA.
A Deputy Executive Secretary in charge of Enforcement at the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), Richard Nii Lante Blankson revealed that the suspect claimed he swallowed 77 pellets of heroin but vomited some in Pakistan before setting off to Ghana.
He indicated that Umeugokwe in his quest to make quick money left the shores of Nigeria late last year, for Ghana by road and left the following day on board Kenya Airways to Nairobi and continued with Ethihad Airlines to Pakistan.
In Pakistan, Nii Lante Blankson stressed that Umeugokwe stayed at the Metro Park Hotel in Islamabad in Pakistan for six weeks where he claimed was aided by a fellow Nigerian called Cosmos to purchase the drugs.
According to him, the suspect claimed he paid $3,500 for 50 pellets of the heroin but Cosmos added 27 to what he had swallowed to be given to his brother on suspect’s arrival in Nigeria, but the suspect vomited some in Pakistan.
He added that the suspect will be arraigned after investigations and further assured the Ghanaian public of NACOB’s commitment to fight the drug trade.
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