A 36-year-old man
has been rearrested for the same offence of drug trafficking, a crime for which
he is already standing trial in court. Nnaemeka Benjamin, who is standing trial for cocaine smuggling at the
Lagos High Court, Ikoyi, was re-arrested with 1.820kg of heroin by officials of
the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed
International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.
Nnaemeka, who just completed the excretion of heroin he
ingested, tested positive for narcotic ingestion during the inward screening of
passengers on an Etihad flight from Pakistan last weekend.
The accused was first arrested in August 2009 with
1.796kg of cocaine on his way from Brazil. He was charged to court but later
released on bail. He was re-arrested for importing 1.820kg of heroin on his way
from Pakistan. According to NDLEA, preliminary investigation indicated that the
suspect excreted some of the drugs in the flight. In 2009, Nnaemeka was caught
with Nigerian international passport number A00052663 while in 2013 he was
caught with another Nigerian passport number A02349133. It was also gathered
that the suspect was recruited to smuggle the drug for a fee of N4 million.
The suspect, in his confessional statement, told NDLEA
officials that he went back to drug trafficking because of unemployment.
“I am long overdue to marry but I have no wife. I know
that what I did is bad but it is due to unemployment. I was first arrested in
2009 when I went to Brazil to smuggle Cocaine. When I came out on bail, there
was no job for me to do. Although my case with the NDLEA is pending in court; I
decided to try again hoping that I might be lucky.
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