A Fifty-five-year-old, physically challenged Nigerian, Ambrose Okeke
Ifedilichukwe, who was arrested last Thursday, at the Kotoka
International Airport, Ghana, for swallowing pellets of powdered
substances suspected to be cocaine has died.According to the
Ghanaian Times,he died on Saturday evening after going through surgery
at the 37 Military Hospital, where he expelled 46 of the pellets.
During interrogation,he confessed that he swallowed the substance to be delivered to somebody for a fee of $6,000.
Fedilichukwe,
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.
On
reaching the Kotoka International Airport, Mr. Ifedilichukwe, was
handed over to airport officials who took him to the Aviation Clinic
where it was observed that he had swallowed illicit substances.
The
medical officer on duty advised that the suspect expel the substances
before he could be treated, hence he was taken back to the Aviation
Clinic, but his condition worsened, and he was rushed to the 37 Military
Hospital where he was operated upon.
He died later while receiving treatment.
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