"We hid cocaine inside meals" - Another Arik Air employee confesses - DailyPost Nigeria
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agenc, NDLEA, on Thursday announced that another employee of Arik Air, Ikechukwu Chibuzor Oliver, has confessed to being an accomplice in the smuggling of 20kg cocaine to London on Monday. Oliver, Arik Air’s employee in the catering department hails from the Isialagwa North Local Government Area of Abia State. The graduate of Business Administration was employed by Arik Air in 2009. He was said to have assisted Chika Egwu Udensi to get the cocaine onboard the London-bound Flight W3101 on which Udensi arrived in the UK on Monday night. Udensi, a senior flight attendant with the airline was arrested with the substance by the UK Border Force at the Heathrow Airport, London, shortly after the Airbus A330 landed. The NDLEA, in a statement by Mitchell Ofoyeju, said 35 years old Oliver, a catering loader at Arik, was found to have subverted airport security by concealing cocaine in catering supplies. It quoted Oliver to have said, “It was Chika that introduced me into the drug deal. “The 20kg of cocaine found with Chika in London was concealed within the construction of laptop bags. The quantity and estimated street value of the cocaine is over N100m. “The latest Range Rover (Land Rover) car belonging to the prime suspect parked on the airline’s premises had been moved to the NDLEA office as exhibit. Source: dailypost.ng
