Airport Attendant Jailed Over Possession of Illicit Drug
By Felix Kuyinu
An airport attendant has been sent to a one-year jail term for attempting to add tramadol into a passenger’s luggage.
Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of the Federal High Court in Lagos convicted the offender, Ajuzieogu Ugochukwu, who admitted to have inserted tramadol concealed in a bottle of dietary supplements in a Ghana-bound passenger’s luggage, as revealed at the court by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
Ugochukwu, an employee of Pathfinder International Ltd, an aviation security service company, pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy and unlawful exportation of 17grams of Tramadol 225mg and was sentenced to one year imprisonment alongside the owner of the illicit drug, Okosun Punnit.
A video of the face-off between the passenger and Ugochukwu went viral on January 16, 2024, after the vigilant passenger suspected the consignment contained illicit substances.
The prosecutor, Augustine Nwagu, informed the court that the convicts committed the offences on January 14, 2024, at the departure hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.
