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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have apprehended a suspected drug trafficker with two international passports, one concealed in his pants, the agency said in a statement this morning.
NDLEA said that the suspect, Ogbobe Chukwuma Franklin, 43, tested positive for drug ingestion during the screening of passengers at the Murtalla Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, in Lagos, southwest Nigeria.
“He held a set of travel documents while the other set was concealed in his pants,” Mitchell Ofoyeju, NDLEA Head of Public Affairs, said, adding that the suspect was apprehended on 17 March while on his way to Malaysia.
According to Mr Hamza Umar, the NDLEA Commander at MMIA, luck ran out on the suspect when officers detected another travel document in his pants.
“Ogbobe Chukwuma Franklin was arrested following the detection of another set of travel documents on him. This was discovered during a frisk at the screening point. He had an ECOWAS Travel Certificate with Asky airline to Lome, Togo, while his international passport with an Emirate ticket to Malaysia,” Ofoyeju quoted Umar as saying.
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