Officers of the National Drug Law
Enforcement Agency at the Murtala
Muhammed International Airport, Lagos,
arrested a 36-year-old Disc Jockey carrying
855 grammes of cocaine.
In a statement on Tuesday by the NDLEA
Head of Public Affairs, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju,
the suspect, Iwunze Magnus, with a South
African passport number 460709224, was
said to have boarded an Iberia flight from
Costa Rica enroute Madrid.
According to the statement by the NDLEA
Head of Public Affairs, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju,
DJ Iwunze Magnus was found to have
ingested 52 wraps of cocaine as he arrived,
three of these wraps were excreted by him
during the flight.
Magnus, who owns a music studio in
Johannesburg, where he has lived with his
wife and child since 1997, explained his
acts as follows:
“I had wanted to settle the debts I incurred
during the burial of my late brother. In an
attempt to pay the balance of N300,000, I
fell into the hands of drug traffickers who
lured me into the trade.
They were to pay me $2,500, if I had
succeeded,”the suspected man is a native
of Ibitolu, Imo State.
Thorough investigation of the case has
been ordered.
Thursday, 31 October 2013
Nigerian DJ Arrested With 52 Wraps Of Cocaine
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