NDLEA Narrates How 2 Brazil Returnees Excreted 116 wraps of illicit Drugs in Custody
- Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested two Brazil returnees, Ofoma Sunday and Ukachukwu Frank Ikechukwu
- The NDLEA said the two returnees excreted a total of 116 wraps of heroin and cocaine while in custody
- The NDLEA Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, shared more details about the arrest and confession of the returnees
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FCT, Abuja - The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said two Brazil returnees, Ofoma Sunday and Ukachukwu Frank Ikechukwu, excreted a total of 116 wraps of heroin and cocaine while in custody.
The NDLEA said the suspects excreted the illicit drugs they ingested after days in observatory custody following their arrest at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos.
Source: Twitter
The NDLEA Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, said 46-year-old Ofoma was arrested on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, at Terminal 2 of the Lagos airport upon his arrival from Laos, Brazil, on an Ethiopian Airlines flight.
Babafemi said the NDLEA operatives took Ofoma for a body scan, which confirmed ingestion of illicit drugs.
He added that Ofoma had left Nigeria for Brazil on September 3 to courier the consignment to Lagos for a reward of $2,500 upon successful delivery.
This was contained in a statement issued via the NDLEA X handle @ndlea_nigeria on Sunday, September 21, 2025.
The NDLEA said 55-year-old Nweke Jude Chuckwudi, who was designated to oversee the excretion of the drugs and recover them, was arrested during a swift follow-up operation conducted at Eliata Hotel in Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos.
Babafemi further stated that a total of 111 wraps of heroin weighing 1.452 kilograms were egested in eight excretions by Ofoma.
The NDLEA said another Brazil returnee, Ukachukwu Frank Ikechukwu, was arrested on Friday, September 19, at the Lagos airport during the inward clearance of Ethiopian Airlines passengers from Brazil via Addis Ababa.
Ukachukwu was confirmed to have an insertion of an illicit drug after a body scan. The suspect expelled five big wraps of cocaine weighing 145 grams under excretion observation.
The Brazil returnee claimed he was in the clothing business before traveling to Brazil in 2017, but later moved to the United States in 2020.
He added that he was arrested for an immigration offence and was detained for over a year before being deported from the US to Nigeria in 2022.
He returned to Brazil in March 2025, where he currently works, having already obtained a Brazilian residence permit.
“He confessed to having bought nine wraps of the class A drug in Brazil and inserted all into his anus, a process he claimed took him nearly two hours. During his transit through Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, he said he began to experience severe anal pain and decided to remove the wraps from his body. He stated that in an attempt to meet up with his connecting flight to Nigeria, he could only manage to reinsert seven wraps, after which he flushed the remaining two wraps in a toilet.
“The suspect revealed that while on board his flight to Nigeria, he felt pressured and uncomfortable, which compelled him to use the lavatory. During the process, he expelled an additional two wraps, leaving him with only five wraps in his anus.
Widow arrested using fake pregnancy to traffic Illicit drugs
Recall that 50-year-old widow, Ifeoma Henrietta Ezewuike, landed in the custody of the NDLEA.
Ezewuike was arrested for attempting to traffic 1.3 kilograms of illicit drugs with a fake pregnancy in a bus terminal.
The NDLEA Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, explained how the widow was arrested while moving the consignment to customers in Abuja.
NDLEA arrests prophet over alleged drug trafficking
In a previous story, Legit.ng reported that the NDLEA arrested the general overseer of The Turn of Mercy Church, Prophet Adefolusho Olasele, for allegedly masterminding multiple illicit drug shipments.
The suspect, who had fled abroad to evade arrest, was apprehended on Sunday, August 3, 2025, at his church located along Okun Ajah, Ogombo Road, Lekki, Lagos.
According to NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi, operatives waited until the end of the Sunday worship service before making the arrest.
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