The quest for quick wealth by young men in our generation has made a 32-year-old textile merchant, Paul Emujue, import 5.745kg of cocaine worth N57m. Well luck was not on his time this time as he has been arrested by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. Emujue was said to have hidden the cocaine inside laptop bags. He was said to be on his way from Sao Paulo, Brazil, when he was apprehended at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
A statement by NDLEA Head of Public
Affairs, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, said NDLEA Commander, Mr. Hamza Umar, confirmed
the arrest.
Umar said, “The drug was detected
during the inward screening of passengers on Etihad flight. The cocaine was
ingeniously packed in laptop bags such that we had to cut the bags open to
detect the drug. The suspect could have escaped arrest, had the drug not been
detected.”
Ofoyeju, however, said investigation
had commenced into the case and Emujue, who hailed from Anambra State, would be
charged to court at the conclusion of investigation.
NDLEA spokesperson said the suspect
was single and dropped out of school in Junior Secondary School in 1988.
The secondary school dropout said, “I ventured into drug trafficking because of
frustration. For the past 10 years, I have been dealing in textiles in
Togo. In 2011, I relocated to Brazil in search of greener pastures.
“Unfortunately,
my business did not flourish as I had expected. I was assured that I could make
enough money from drug trafficking to invest in my business. I decided to give
it a trial and I was arrested in the process.”
NDLEA Chairman, Ahmadu Giade, said,
“The agency will continue to arrest drug traffickers and charge them to court.
This arrest is commendable. Members of the public must note that it is wrong to
raise capital from drug trafficking because anyone that ventures into the
criminal act will be prosecuted. I urge stakeholders to partner with the NDLEA
in fighting drug trafficking.”
Source : Punch
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