India-bound ‘fake couple’ excretes 184 wraps of cocaine in Lagos

India-bound ‘fake couple’ excretes 184 wraps of cocaine in Lagos

Two drug peddlers faking their identities as a couple have been arrested by the Lagos State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

The two were holding travel documents bearing Mr. Ilonzeh Kingsley Onyebuchi and Mrs. Ilonzeh Roseline Nonyelum, which projected them as a couple. On proper search, their true names were revealed as Uwaezuoke Ikenna Christian and Ngogbike Nkechi, respectively.

Nkechi, who claimed she was recruited into the business from her church in Aba, Abia State, had 100 grams of cocaine in her private part. Christian, a serial transnational drug pusher, excreted 82 wraps of cocaine after he was placed on excretion observation by the personnel of the agency at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport. They were expected to convey the drugs to India.

“Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a fake couple: Mr. Ilonzeh Kingsley Onyebuchi and Mrs. Ilonzeh Roseline Nonyelum purportedly going for medical treatment in India for ingesting 184 wraps of cocaine weighing 3.322 kilograms with 100grams of the drug also concealed in the woman’s private part,” said the NDLEA in a statement signed by Femi Babafemi, its director of media and advocacy, on August 6.

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“The two suspects were intercepted at the Screening Point 1, Terminal 1 of the international wing of the Lagos airport on Tuesday 1st August 2023 while attempting to board an Ethiopian airline flight to India. Though their travel documents show consistency in their names and depict them as a couple, an NDLEA officer however decided to subject them to body scan. The scan confirmed they both ingested drugs as a result of which they were later placed on excretion observation at the Agency’s facility.

“While their travel documents identify the man as Ilonzeh Kingsley Onyebuchi and the lady to be Ilonzeh Roseline Nonyelum, preliminary investigation revealed that the intending passengers were not a couple but obtained the travel documents in the same surname to beat security checks at the airport. The lady later gave her real name as Ngogbike Nkechi.

“During her interview, she confessed that she was recruited in her church in Aba, Abia state where she lives. The suspect, Ilonzeh Roseline Nonyelum (aka Ngogbike Nkechi) stated further that she is a divorcee, and that Kingsley with whom she was travelling is not her husband but connected only for the purpose of the illicit drug business trip.

“She revealed that her arranged husband, Kingsley brought the pellets of cocaine to her in her room to ingest in the hotel where they were both lodged in separate rooms the previous day Monday 31st July.