Ex-Lagos BRT driver excretes 90 pellets of cocaine in NDLEA custody
A former driver with the Lagos Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), Muyiwa Bolujoko has excreted 90 pellets of cocaine at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja, Lagos.
Bolujoko was guided by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), after he was arrested during screening while trying to board a Qatar Airways flight enroute Doha to Sharjah, with his trip expected to terminate in Dubai, United Arab Emirate (UAE).
The former driver, an indigene of Ijebu South Local Government in Ogun State, was said to have been placed under excretion observation after body scan result confirmed drug ingestion.
Speaking on Bolujoko’s arrest and excretion of cocaine, NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, disclosed that all pellets were excreted by the former driver at four different periods under the supervision of its officials.
Babafemi, in a statement made available to newsmen on Sunday, added that the 39-year-old was picked up by NDLEA officials at the airport on Monday, June 27.
According to the statement, Bolujoko claimed he left his N60,000 per month job as a BRT driver in February and decided to work as a drug courier to raise funds to buy a shuttle bus popularly called ‘Korope’ in Lagos to continue his transport business.
