BODE RHODES-VIVOUR, J.S.C.: (Delivering the Leading Judgment): On the 20th day of November, 2003 the appellant boarded a KLM plane at Amsterdam's Schipol Airport. It was a direct flight to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. On arrival the appellant's bag was searched by NDLEA officials at the Airport. Nothing was found on him. He was taken into the NDLEA office where he was ordered into the toilet. Therein, he moved his bowels and excreted well wrapped substances both subsequently found to be cocaine. The appellant wrote and signed two statements where he confirmed that the substances were cocaine. After a field test it was confirmed that the substances were cocaine. The substance was packed in his presence and sent to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Drug Laboratory Ikoyi Lagos. A Drug Analysis Report was issued subsequently and the substance recovered from the appellant was confirmed to be cocaine.
The appellant was arrainged in the Federal High Court Abuj…