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<\/p>\nThe suspects are: Obasi Chidi from Enugu State, and Nebo Lloyd from Abia State.<\/p>\n
The agency made this known in a statement by its Head, Public Affairs Unit, Mr Jonah Achema, on Friday in Abuja.<\/p>\n
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the arrest was made by the agency\u2019s Special Area Command at the airport.<\/p>\n
Achema said that the suspects were apprehended as they arrived at the airport aboard an Ethiopian Airline Flight 911, connecting from Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cThey were arrested with various sums of hard currencies neatly concealed in their travelling bags.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey, however, failed to declare the currencies at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel or upon arrival at the Airport in Abuja.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUpon intensive search by officers and men of NDLEA, Lloyd was found with the sum of 371, 203 dollars, 20,000 Euros and 20 Shekels.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cChidi was found with 318,000 dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n
He stated that preliminary investigation indicated that the money was to be delivered to a recipient in Abuja.<\/p>\n
Achema said, \u201cthe recipient was expected to disburse same to supposed beneficiaries\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo far, the couriers could not give account of the source and purpose of the money.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that the money was neither declared before take-off in Israel nor on their arrival in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
He however said that the suspects and monetary exhibits had been transferred to the appropriate government agency for further investigation.<\/p>\n
The agency said that the challenging security situation in the country called for vigilance in all areas.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it had apprehended two suspected hard currency smugglers at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The suspects are: Obasi Chidi from Enugu State, and Nebo Lloyd from Abia State. The agency made this known in a statement by its Head, Public Affairs Unit, Mr Jonah Achema, on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[28,1566],"class_list":["post-120313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-abuja","tag-ndlea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}