NDLEA nabs S’African woman using son as cover to traffic heroin

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 38-year-old South African woman, Ms Will Jessica Ann, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja, after she was found to have allegedly concealed 14 large blocks of heroin weighing 5.75 kilogrammes in her luggage, using her three-year-old son as a cover to beat security checks and evade thorough screening.

The suspect was arrested by NDLEA officers on Monday, July 6, during the inward clearance of passengers on Qatar Airways flight QR 1433 from Doha to Abuja, according to a statement by NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi.

“Though she initially denied travelling with check-in bags, after operatives were able to quickly establish that the two bags containing the drugs had tags which tallied with the claim tags attached to her passport, she recounted and admitted ownership of the bags adding that she forgot she checked in the two bags.

“She claimed to have travelled from Cambodia through Doha to Abuja. Intelligence leading to her arrests indicates she is a member of a transnational drug trafficking organization along with her husband/partner, Jan Coenraad De Jager, based in Cambodia, from where they operate their drug network along the Cambodian-South African axis,” Babafemi said.

In another successful interdiction operation, NDLEA officers at the terminal 2 arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja Lagos on 28th June 2026 intercepted a commercial motorcycle operator popularly known as ‘Okada rider’, 48-year-old Onyechere Daniel Chinedu, following his arrival from Madagascar via Addis Ababa aboard an Ethiopian Airways flight.

“A thorough search of his backpack, which he had checked in, led to the discovery of 87 wraps of methamphetamine concealed within clothes in his bag. In his statement, Onyechere claimed he has been working for 15 years as an Okada rider in the Oke-Afo area of Lagos before his Uganda-based friend recruited him into drug trafficking.

He said he ingested the recovered pellets of methamphetamine in Uganda before embarking on his planned journey to Madagascar to deliver the drug consignment. He however, said that upon arrival in Madagascar, he was denied entry by Immigration authorities. As a result, his friend and sponsor, Ozor Igo, based in Uganda, rerouted his flight to Lagos, where he was eventually arrested by NDLEA officers.

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