NDLEA Arrests Iran-Bound Woman Concealing Cocaine In Body, Bag At PH Airport
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have thwarted what it described as a desperate attempt by a woman, Ihensekhien Miracle Obehi, to export large consignments of cocaine concealed in her private part, stomach and false bottom of her handbag to Iran at the Port Harcourt International Airport in Rivers State.
This was disclosed by the NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement made on Sunday.
Babafemi said that Obehi, who was dressed in hijab to beat security checks, was intercepted at the departure hall of the Port Harcourt airport on Sunday May 3, 2025, while trying to board a Qatar Airline flight to Iran via Doha following credible intelligence.
He disclosed that during a search on Obehi, she was found to have inserted three wraps of cocaine in her private part, and two large parcels hidden in false compartments of her handbag while she swallowed 67 pellets of the Class A drug. As a result, she was said to have been placed under excretion observation and after four excretions that lasted days, she expelled the 67 wraps of the substance in her stomach.
According to Babafemi, Obehi claimed she was to swallow 70 pellets of cocaine but after ingesting 67 pieces she could no longer swallow the remaining three and decided to insert them into her private part. The total weight of the three consignments hidden in different parts of her body comes to 2.523 kilograms, according to the NDLEA. In a related operation, NDLEA said its operatives at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos on Friday 9th May intercepted a 22-year-old British national, Campell Kaizra Kofi Johannes Slifer coming from Thailand through Doha on Qatar Airways flight with two suitcases loaded with 35 parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis weighing 37.60kg.
