A Spain-based Nigerian man, Joseph Sunday Nweze, has been arrested with suspected cocaine at the Banjul International Airport.

The Drug Law Enforcement Agency (DLEAG) said the suspect was arrested with 130 pellets of suspected cocaine, adding that their officers at the airport “used behavioural indicator tactics, operatives noticed that the suspect could be a mule who may be carrying suspected prohibited drugs.”

“He confessed to having swallowed pellets of cocaine in Guinea Bissau before traveling by land straight to the Airport. He was thereafter placed on observation and during the course of the investigative process, he defecated a cumulative total of one hundred and thirty (130) pellets of suspected cocaine.

“The suspect who was later identified as Joseph Sunday Nweze is a 46 years old Nigerian National residing in Spain. He initially excreted thirty-five (35) pellets. Later on, he sequentially excreted another thirty-five (35) pellets, twenty-nine (29) pellets, seventeen (17) pellets, eight pellets, and six (6) pellets respectively,” DLEAG said.

Reporting by Adama Makasuba