Egboaka Onyeka, a final year student of Economics at Anambra state university was arrested by NDLEA at Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, after he tested positive to drug ingestion test, during that hour, he was forced to excrete 68 wraps of the substance.
According to this suspect, he was promised $5,000 if he successfully took the drug to Malaysia. Curiously, he wrote a seminar paper entitled ”Effects of Drug Abuse in the Performance
of Tertiary Institution Students in Nigeria,” in his third year but its like that did not count on his part, it was all to gain marks.
A native of Orlu in Imo State, Egboaka said the protracted strike action by lecturers was responsible for his involvement in drug trafficking. He
said, ”I have been under pressure for a long time and my idleness as a
result of the strike provided the opportunity. In April 2009, I met a
man who wanted me to smuggle drugs but I refused. I told him that I will
think over it. When he called me after several weeks, I told him I
could not do it but he kept persuading me and at the end, i gave in for it and that was how i ended up here, he concluded.
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