NDLEA Arrests Chadian Lady At Abuja Airport With Heroin In Private Parts

NDLEA  has arrested a Chadian lady, identified as Vivien Tarmadji, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, with 234.35 grammes of heroin hidden in her private parts.

According to Punch, Tarmadji was trying to board an Ethiopian airline flight 911 enroute to Addis Ababa-Italy when she was caught.

Tarmadji, who runs a saloon business in Italy since 2016 upon her relocation to the country via Libya, was nabbed by vigilant narcotics agents during an outward clearance of the airline at the boarding gate after being scanned.

In a statement by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, on Friday, said, under interrogation, Tarmadji claimed she was contacted by a man who called her from Italy to collect the drug from one man who delivered the illicit substance to her in a hotel she lodged in Lagos early in the morning before she took her flight to Abuja same day for onward journey to Italy.

She further claimed that the man brought 50 wraps of heroin for her to swallow but she couldn’t, and as such, she decided to insert 18 wraps into her private part and returned the remaining to the man that brought the drug to her in the hotel.

Tarmadji said she came into Nigeria to raise money to pay for her house and shop rents which had expired in Italy, as life has been so difficult since the coming of the COVID-19 pandemic.

She said the owner of the drug was to pay her €10,000 for the successful delivery of the drug to Italy.