ENUGU, NIGERIA - In our latest look into the seedy underside of produce as drug mules in illicit activity, officials have arrested six people for concealing marijuana and cocaine in vegetables and shoes.

The suspects, and later the arrested, were stopped by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Enugu Airport in Nigeria. Hidden within the folds of vegetables and the soles of their shoes, the traffickers concealed a total of 62.663 kg (a little over 138 pounds) of drugs. 

Of the traffickers, Kenechukwu Ujunwa, a 27 year-old woman, had tried to conceal her roughly 25 pounds of marijuana in dried, bitter leaf vegetables, in a not-so-cunning attempt to portray her load as innocent. Ujunwa was reportedly headed to Dubai.

All of the suspects, some of whom were headed to the strictly anti-drug territory of China with shoe soles laden with drugs, confessed to the crime when stopped, and stated they needed the money for basic needs.

“NDLEA will continue to invest in public enlightenment to guide people in taking sound drug-free decisions. Life is precious and I urge you to shun drug trafficking and criminal acts capable of subjecting you to prison custody and untimely death,” NDLEA Chief Executive Colonel Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah stated of the incident, according to National Mirror Online.

Stay wrapped up in AndNowUKnow as we continue to report on strange yet enticing mix of the produce world and thwarted traffickers.