Emeka Ezennaya, Aliozor Jude Chinedu, Okechi Jude Eze, Anamodo John Paul and Chidike Deacon Okechukwu,arrested

Emeka Ezennaya, Aliozor Jude Chinedu, Okechi Jude Eze, Anamodo John Paul and Chidike Deacon Okechukwu. Others were Kingsley Ifeanyi, Onyemechi Ohakwe, Uche Teddy Egwuogu, and Ezenwankwo Albert. The suspects were between the age bracket of 21 and 44 years. Preliminary investigations conducted by the agency revealed that five of the suspects were living in Europe as unskilled labourers.It was also discovered that three of the suspects ingested the drugs in Lagos and flew to Abuja to connect a KLM flight to their destinations. Hamza warned drug traffickers not to go close to any of the four international airports in the country with drugs, otherwise they would be caught and end up shamefully “like their cohorts who were now gnashing their teeth in detention.” He said, “From January to date, 87 suspected drug traffickers have been arrested at the Abuja airport. Out of this number, 44 have been successfully convicted by the law courts while 43 cases are at various levels of trial.” He stressed that the addition of the United States-made body scanners to the stock of existing X-ray machines had made the airports invincible to drug traffickers. “All four international airports in the country today are fully equipped such that any drug suspect passing through them should prepare his or her mind for arrest and prosecution”. Ezenwankwo Albert, 35, who was arrested during the screening of passengers on KLM flight to Amsterdam on October 4, 2008, confessed to have swallowed 80 pieces of substances that tested positive for cocaine weighing 1.5 kilogrammes. Albert, a resident of 32 Babington Street, Okota, Lagos, hails from Orunba Local Government Area of Anambra State.