MIRIAM NNOLI 
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, on Sunday, confirmed the arrest of a Thailand returnee, Oguejiofor Simonpeter, for importing 13.30kg of heroin worth over N3.192bn.
Sunday Telegraph reports that Oguejiofor was arrested on October 7, 2024, while attempting to smuggle out of the airport the drug concealed in six backpacks and then packed into two big suitcases.
Confirming the development in a statement issued by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, the suspect left Thailand on October 3 on a Qatar Airways flight and stopped over in Doha, where he spent two days before heading to Lagos while his luggage was routed to Accra, Ghana, his original destination.
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After arriving in Lagos on October 5, he contacted the airline to reroute his luggage to Nigeria so that he could pick them up as rush bags in a bit to beat security checks.
However, NDLEA officers intercepted him at the point of exit.
The statement partly reads, “A search of his two suitcases revealed three empty backpacks in each box with a large parcel of heroin neatly sewn to all six backpacks. The six parcels were subsequently recovered with a gross weight of 13.30kg.”
Babafemi said Oguejiofor stated that he was offered $7,000 to peddle the drugs to Nigeria and Ghana.
