The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Thursday said it had apprehended another employee of Arik Air, Ikechukwu Chibuzor Oliver, for his alleged involvement in the smuggling of 20kg cocaine to London on Monday.
According to the NDLEA, Oliver had
confessed to the crime and had revealed that he.....
charged N400,000 for
each of the three bags containing the substance.
Oliver, Arik Air’s employee in the
catering department, was said to have assisted Chika Egwu Udensi to get
the cocaine onboard the London-bound Flight W3101 on which Udensi
arrived in the UK on Monday night.
Udensi, a senior flight attendant with
the airline was arrested with the substance by the UK Border Force at
the Heathrow Airport, London, shortly after the Airbus A330 landed.
The NDLEA, in a statement, said 35 years
old Oliver, who is a catering loader at Arik, was found to have
subverted airport security by concealing cocaine in catering supplies.
The statement by the anti-narcotics
agency’s spokesman, Mitchell Ofoyeju, indicated that preliminary
investigation had revealed that both Oliver and Udensi had been
infiltrated by a suspected drug cartel.
Ofoyeju said Oliver had told narcotic investigators that he was brought into the illicit drug deal by Udensi.
Meanwhile, the NDLEA Chairman/Chief
Executive Officer, Ahmadu Giade, has directed that, henceforth, all
airport workers must be extensively screened.
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