Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested 27-year-old Madu Chukwuemeka Miracle, for packaging cocaine as tablets of bathing soap at Enugu airport.
Madu was arrested and cocaine intecepted by the NDLEA operatives after he arrived at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, AIIA, Enugu from Nairobi, Kenya via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Wednesday 26th Oct.
The NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement said a search carried out on his three bags revealed seventy-six (76) foreign bathing soaps made with cocaine in one of the bags while another has two plastic bottles containing cream-like liquid, which tested positive to cocaine.
The cocaine bars weigh 10.650 kilograms while the liquid cocaine weighs 2.496 kilograms, bringing the total weight to 13.146 kilograms.
A video posted online by the spokesperson of the agency, Femi Babafemi, shows the banned substance molded in form of tablets of bathing soaps and covered with wraps that read bathing soap.