The NDLEA says it has arrested a 67-year-old Nigerian-British woman, Mary Yetunde Barek, at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, for an alleged drug smuggling attempt. According to the agency, the cocaine—amounting to 13 kilograms—is concealed in “fake plantain peels,” which were allegedly used as a disguise to move the drugs through the airport.
Both reports describe the arrest as being carried out by NDLEA operatives and reference an official NDLEA statement issued on Sunday by the agency’s director. The woman’s nationality is described as Nigerian-British, and her age is consistently given as 67. The accounts focus on the method of concealment (plantain-peel packaging) and the quantity of cocaine recovered (13kg), with no additional details provided about her intended destination, how she was selected for examination, or whether she has been charged.
The NDLEA’s claim is the central point across the two sources, and the reports present the incident as an alleged attempt rather than a confirmed conviction.
