A yet to be identified Nigerian hard drug trafficker has died at Madrid airport in Spain as a substance suspected to be cocaine which he had swallowed burst in his stomach leaving him in serious agony and making both crew and medical staff suspecting the passenger must have suffered Ebola virus attack. He died because for fear of Ebola, he was left unattended to.
Nigerian anti-hard drug agency, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Chairman, Ahmadu Giade, in a telephone interview told our Correspondent that Madrid security operatives have contacted his office to break the news.
Giade also stated that it was unfortunate that the young Nigerian has wasted his life because of inordinate quest for quick riches. “We have been warning our young ones to stay away from hard drug trafficking and wait for God’s appointed time. It is a huge waste for his family, community and the country at large.”
Spanish newspaper, El Mundo, reported that the Nigerian drug mule began convulsing at Madrid airport after bags of cocaine he had swallowed split open and he was left in his pain because terrified staff thought he had Ebola.
The Nigerian mule arrived in Madrid from Istanbul and died 90 minutes later. The man had cocaine bags in his body, which had split, and he had overdose of it. Airport staff did not want to touch him because they believed he had Ebola.
The man collapsed in the customs area of the Madrid-Barajas airport outside the capital after arriving on a flight from Istanbul.
Upon hearing that the man was from Nigeria, staff at the airport, were reportedly too afraid to approach the man and left him in shivers on the airport floor.
The man, who had landed on a flight from Istanbul on October 18, died 90 minutes later from a massive drugs overdose, Spain’s El Mundo newspaper said.
It added: ‘A civil guard officer initially positioned the man on his side and identified him from personal documents.
‘When it was clear he was a Nigerian, no one dared touch him.
‘Medical staff decided immediately that there was a risk that this could be a case of Ebola.’
It later transpired that the man was suffering the effects of a cocaine overdose after several bags of the drug burst in his stomach.
A passenger accompanying the Nigerian later told police that he had flown from Madrid to Istanbul on October 14 and had not been to Nigeria for four years.
Ebola has killed 4,877 people in the past six weeks, almost all of who were allegedly infected with the virus in West Africa.
