2 drug traffickers caught in NDLEA’s net

Seriki Muktar Adebayo, a 26-year-old Tanzania-based Nigerian footballer from Osun State, was arrested yesterday, with 2.070kgs of heroin, onboard an Ethiopian Airline flight from Mozambique. He said: “After a fruitless search for a football club in Tanzania, I moved to Mozambique.

Still, I could not secure a club. In the process, I exhausted my money and was stranded. I was so disappointed and frustrated that I needed to return home. At that point, I had no choice than to agree to smuggle drugs. I regret my action.”

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Also arrested was a trainee fashion designer living in Spain, Rita Godfrey, 46, from Edo State, who was nabbed with 1.525kgs of cocaine. Rita said that she was promised N500, 000 to smuggle the drugs from Dubai. Her words: “I had financial problem and was introduced into drug trafficking by a friend.

They told me that somebody would give me the drug while on transit in Dubai. While at the airport, a man approached me and gave it to me. I was surprised when the drug was discovered here because it was not hidden at all. I never checked it. I just kept it in my bag the way it was given to me.”…. wt d hope dt my Edo heritage wld make it invisible….