NDLEA Arrests Comedian At Nigerian Airport For Drug(Ingested) Trafficking!

Musah Iddrisu a.k.a. Charles Udunehi a comedian from Ghana and a Congolese, Inana Cedrick, were both arrested during the inward and outward screening of Ethiopian airline passengers respectively at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. According to NDLEA Commander at the airport, Mr. Udoh Nsikak-Abasi, “Iddrisu was found to have ingested 450 grammes of cocaine. He was on his way to Thailand.  Cedrick was caught with 1.500 kilogrammes of heroin hidden inside a luggage which he tried importing into the country. A third suspect, who is a Nigerian, John Nwadilichukwu was to receive Cedrick at the airport, collect the drug and pay him for smuggling the drug was also arrested."

Cedrick claims he is a 20-year-old secondary school student in Tanzania, and added that, “I was given the drug in Nairobi by a Nigerian woman who told me to give the drug to her husband, Nwadilichukwu, in Enugu... I wanted to use the money they promised to pay me in buying beads for sale in Tanzania. I am a secondary school student from a poor home.”

Iddrisu, on the other hand claimed he bought the cocaine for $19,000 and wanted to sell them in Thailand, because he was financially struggling. In his words, “I got involved in drug trafficking because of my financial predicament... I bought the drugs in Ghana, ingested it and came to Enugu airport. As it is a new airport, I felt the security will not be like other airports, but I was wrong.”