Drug trafficker, Ambrose Okeke Ifedilichukwu, dies at Military Hospital

A 55-year-old Nigerian, Ambrose Okeke Infedilichukwu, arrested on Thursday at the Kotoka International Airport for swallowing pellets of powdered substances suspected to be cocaine has died.

He died on Saturday evening after going through surgery at the 37 Military Hospital where he expelled 46 of the pellets.

He had earlier confessed to officials of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) during interrogation that he swallowed the substance to be delivered to somebody for a fee of $6,000.

Nii Lante Blankson, Deputy Executive Secretary in charge of Enforcement at NACOB, who disclosed this to The Ghanaian Times in an interview yesterday, said he suspected that some of the pellets might have burst in the stomach.

He said Ifedililchukwe, who is physically-challenged, was on an Emirate flight from Cote d'Ivoire en-route to Hong-Kong via Dubai, but while on the flight, the flight attendants noticed he was fidgeting.




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