Canada-based nurse Khadujat Olami arrested at Lagos international airport with 35.70 hard drugs

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), arrested Nigerian Canadian nurse, Usman Grace Khadijat Olami, at the Lagos airport during the inward clearance of Air France passengers from Toronto, Canada via Paris.

According to the Director, Media & Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr. Femi Babafemi, during a search of her luggage, a total of 70 parcels of Canadian Loud, weighing 35.70kg were recovered from her.

Khadijat Olami claimed that she was in Nigeria to meet her boyfriend who instructed her to come with the large consignment of the highly sought-after synthetic cannabis.

In the same vein two businessmen, Ihejirika Okechukwu Emmanuel and Iwuagwu Ikedi Victory were at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja Lagos for attempting to import and export cocaine pellets through the airport.

Ihejirika who frequents Thailand from where he claims to be importing fish into Nigeria was arrested on Tuesday 15th October 2024 while attempting to board an Ethiopian Airlines flight to Thailand via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

When he was taken for a body scan, the result showed he ingested an illicit drug which proved to be cocaine. As a result, he was placed under excretion observation during which he expelled five big egg-size wraps of cocaine weighing 400 grams.

In his statement, the 51-year-old suspect confessed that he was to be paid upon successful delivery of the drug consignment in Thailand.

He said he needed the money to boost his fish importation business.