The security officials of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria on Thursday prevented a suspect (names withheld) from trafficking $271,14 (N54.35m) through the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja.

The FAAN Deputy General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Mr Onyekwere Nnaekpe, made the discosure in a statement in Lagos.

The statement said the money was found on a cleaner (names withheld) attached to one of the cleaning contractors at the airport.

It added that the FAAN official apprehended the suspect during a pat down at one of the screening points at ‘D’ Finger of the international terminal.

According to it, some of the foreign currency was found on the suspect while the remaining amount was found in the sanitary bucket which he was trying to pass through screening.

The statement said the cleaner was trying to convey the foreign currency to an accomplice at the sterile area of the terminal.

It stated that the suspect was immediately handed over to the appropriate security agencies at the airport for further investigation

Source: Punch Newspaper

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very lucrative business, if only he succeeded this time around

henribj:
very lucrative business, if only he succeeded this time around

Yup. Who knows how many times he has succeeded in the past.

What does he mean that he found the money in a sanitary bucket?

Who is that fool that will stupid enough to drop sure a hug amount of money there?

Abi, na money the person dey use clean yn*sha

SmartMugu:

Yup. Who knows how many times he has succeeded in the past.

exactly.