Lagos - Tragedy was averted recently by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), as 71 wraps of heroin were removed from the stomach of a drug-trafficker through surgery in Lagos.

The 26-year old suspect, Okonkwo Ugochukwu, who was arrested on May 2, 2004 on arrival from Karachi, Pakistan, was said to have developed complications while on observation because he could not excrete all the hard drugs he had earlier swallowed to avoid detection.

According to Murtala Moham-med International Airport Comm-ander of NDLEA, Alhaji Abdullahi Danburam, the suspect confessed to NDLEA officials that the man that gave him the drugs made him to swallow 25 capsules of Flagyl and some capsules of Tetracycline.

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