Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, have arrested a fifty-six-year-old widow and mother of four, Ajisegiri Sidika at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.

The operatives arrested Sidika for her attempt to traffic four hundred grams of cocaine concealed in her footwear to Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

The suspect who claimed to be a businesswoman trading in adult and children’s wears on Lagos Island was intercepted last Sunday while trying to board a Qatar Airways flight going to Saudi Arabia via Doha.

According to NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, upon a critical examination of the pair of sandals she was wearing, two parcels of cocaine weighing four hundred grams were recovered from them.

In the same vein, attempts by a tricycle parts seller, Ayoade Tayo to send one kilogram of Tramadol 225mg and Rohypnol to Istanbul, Turkey via Cairo on an Egypt Airline flight the same day were also frustrated by NDLEA operatives who arrested him.

Babafemi said the suspect was arrested on Sunday, Nov. 13 by the operatives of the NDLEA.

“He was at the airport to hand over the drugs hidden inside a bag of food items to an intending passenger, Idowu Ayoade, but was arrested,” he said.