A Nigerian man identified as Ejiofor Ohagwu was arrested at the Julius Nyere International Airport Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for being in possession of 4.3 kiliogram of banned substance suspected to be Marijuana on January 1st 2016. He was about to board an Ethiopian Airline flight enroute Lagos when the scanning machine detected the substance underneath his luggage.
Tanzanian immigration service officers say Ejiofor hid the substance inside a compartment he created at the bottom of his suitcase. The value of the banned substance is yet to be ascertained. Meanwhile he is currently being detained in one of the police stations in Tanzania until the investigations into the matter is concluded.
Nigerian arrested in Tanzania for drug trafficking
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