Attendant’s Accomplice: Cocaine Was Hidden In Arik Flight Meals

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Thursday said it had apprehended, for his alleged involvement in the smuggling of 20kg cocaine to London on Monday.

 

Arik Air

According to the NDLEA, Oliver had confessed to the crime and had revealed that he charged N400, 000 for each of the three bags containing the substance.

Oliver, Arik Air’s employee in the catering department, was said to have assisted Chika Egwu Udensi to get the cocaine on-board the London-bound Flight W3101 on which Udensi arrived in the UK on Monday night.

Udensi, a senior flight attendant with the airline was arrested with the substance by the UK Border Force at the Heathrow Airport, London, shortly after the Airbus A330 landed.

The NDLEA, in a statement, said 35 years old Oliver, who is a catering loader at Arik, was found to have subverted airport security by concealing cocaine in catering supplies.

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NDLEA Seize Range Rover And Occupies Arik Crew Member's House

On Wednesday, the National Drug enforcement Agency (NDLEA) stormed and occupied the house of Chika Egwu Udensi in the Ejigbo area of Lagos state.

Chika Egwu Udensi

Chika is the crew member of Arik Air that was arrested with 20 kilograms of cocaine at the London Heathrow Airport on flight W3101.

The NDLEA stormed the house after they’d interrogated pilots and flight attendants of the flight that left the Murtala Muhammed International airport, for London on Monday night. The interrogation lasted for many hours at the NDLEA head office in Lagos state.

It was not said if there have been occupants within the house of Chika.

It was gathered that though the operatives had confiscated the suspect’s Range Rover, the NDLEA was still of the opinion that Chika has more properties and would not leave his premises until the have evidences to back up their claim.

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NDLEA HAS SEIZED 2.8 BILLION NAIRA WORTH OF DRUGS AT MMIA FROM JAN 2015 TILL DATE

NDLEA

The National Drug enforcement Agency (NDLEA) taken over narcotic drugs with calculable street price placed at N2.8 billion between January and June 2015 at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos, the agency declared. Operatives of the agency conjointly intercepted $2.5 million,as seventy five suspected drug traffickers which includes sixty two males and thirteen females and cash launderers were in remission in reference to the seizures.