28-Year-Old Nigerian Man Caught With Cocaine Worth Half Million Dollars at Kano Airport

Police say they have arrested a 28-year-old Nigerian carrying a half million dollars’ worth of cocaine stashed in speakers that he carried from Sao Paolo, in Brazil, to the northern Nigerian city of Kano.
Ambrose Umoru, NDLEA Commander in-charge of MAKIA said Maduagwu Nnaemeka was arrested at the airport on Wednesday with 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds) of pure cocaine worth $500,000 (N81 million).
Nnaemeka told reporters at a news conference Wednesday that he was given the speakers at Sao Paolo airport by a Nigerian stranger who begged him to carry them to Kano.

He said he knew nothing about the cocaine they carried.
Umoru said it took his men about 14 hours to discover the cocaine neatly concealed inside two loud speakers.



“His flight arrived on the night of 20 November. Throughout that night, we searched and searched but could not discover anything. In the morning of 21 November, my men continued the search and that was when we discovered white substances concealed inside the loud speakers and when tested, it turned out to be cocaine.
“From what we observed, the cocaine was taken to the factory where the speaker was manufactured and they fitted the substance in the hollow of the speaker, this is a new trick used by drug merchants to beat security checks.
“I want to make it clear that Brazil produce highest grade of cocaine in the whole world. There is no way you can take this one as it is raw directly inside the market. What they do is to dilute it and when that happens, this 3 kg. could multiply into 9kg. and you are talking of about N81 million.”
According to Umoru, investigation has shown that the cocaine was to be received and distributed in Kano, “and if this arrest was not made, the havoc this drug would have caused to our youths and the society remain unimaginable
“It took the ingenuity of the eagle-eyed operatives of the Command to discover yet another mode of concealment by these merchants of death. Let me assure the general public of the Command’s desire to make MAKIA uncomfortable for drug merchants.

“I also warn drug barons and couriers that the Agency will continue to discover their modus operandi and nab them in their criminal act. It is in their best interest to regard MAKIA a no-go area as any courier that attempts to use this airport would be promptly arrested.”

The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crimes estimates between 25 and 66 percent of cocaine bound for Europe from South America passes through West Africa.