A 36 year old Disc Jockey, Iwunze Magnus, has been arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport with 52 pellets of cocaine weighing 855 grammes.
The drug mule was apprehended after excreting 3 of the pellets onboard the plane and stuffing same inside his pocket.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested Magnus, who was carrying a South African passport as he made attempt to board an Iberia flight from Costa Rica enroute Madrid.
Confirming the arrest, NDLEA Airport Commander, Mr. Hamza Umar, said “Three wraps of substances weighing 190 grammes that tested positive for cocaine, were, during a routine search, found in Magnus’s pockets. He had excreted them during the flight from Costa Rica.
“He also tested positive for drug ingestion and while under observation, Magnus excreted 49 wraps that also tested positive for cocaine. In all, he had 52 wraps weighing 855 grammes of cocaine.”
Magnus said, “I am a disc jockey and I have my music studio in Johannesburg, where I have lived with my wife and kid since 1997.
“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.” Magnus is a native of Ibitolu in Imo State.