DRUG LAW ARRESTS 6 FOR SWALLOWING $156,000

Swallowing cash and passing it out later as what?
if the ingenuity used for crime in this country could
be channeled to good use,Nigeria would not have
been where it is now.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)
on Thursday arrested a Bureau De Change operator
and five others for swallowing $156,000 (N31, 083,
000.00) at Excel Oriental Hotel along Airport Road,
Lagos.
They had the intention of exporting the monies to
Brazil.
NDLEA Chairman, Ahmadu Giade, confirmed the arrest.
He assured that the agency would track down
suspected drug traffickers and currency launderers in a
bid to rid the society of crimes.
Giade also warned that operators of bureau de change
who fail to work within the confines of the law
establishing them shall be severely sanctioned.
NDLEA Commander, Joint Task Force, JTF, Mr. Adeniyi
Muyiwa, gave the names of the suspects as Nwokenta
Kingsley, 37, a Bureau de change operator, also known
as Buchito; Onwuasoanya Augustine Chukwuemeka,
54, who lives in Brazil and Christian Okoli Ifor, 35,
based in Brazil.
Others are Nwokenta Emmanuel Maduakolam, 31;
Ezenwa Ikenna, 28, a specialist in wrapping; and
Ezenwa Uzoma, a 33-year-old hotel manager.
He stressed that an interim investigation report by the
anti-narcotics agency revealed that Mr. Nwokenta
Kingsley, a.k.a Buchito was the brain behind the
suspected criminal act.
According to Mr. Muyiwa, Mr. Kingsley allegedly
supplied $120,000 to be swallowed and illicitly
exported to Brazil.
He said: “Onwuasoanya Augustine Chukwuemeka
swallowed 74 wraps of dollars amounting to one
hundred and eleven thousand ($111,000).
“Christian Okoli Ifor, who resides in Brazil had forty-
five thousand dollars which he wanted to swallow.
Nwokenta Emmanuel, who is the manager of Amazon
Bureau de Change played a supportive role in the
alleged crime.
“Ezenwa Ikenna was hired to wrap the money.”