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Friday 3 February 2012

Arik Air Hostess Jailed For 51/2 Years For Cocaine Smuggling


I'm sure you all remember the Arik Air hostess that was caught trying to smuggle a quarter of a million pounds worth of cocaine into the UK in Dec 2011? (If you missed it, read it HERE). Well, she was yesterday February 2nd sentenced to five and a half years in prison.

Chinwendu Uwakaonyenma Ogbonnaya, 29, (pictured above) had flown into London’s Heathrow airport as a member of crew on an Arik Air flight from Lagos on 18 December 2011. UK immigration officers discovered packages of cocaine, worth 250k pounds, hidden inside her bag. Ogbonnaya claimed that she had been given the bag by a friend and that she was unaware it contained drugs. But she later pleaded guilty to attempting to import the drug.

A friend gave her the bag and she was unaware it contained drugs? Do you believe that story?

38 comments:

Legaldiaries said...

May or may not be true

Anonymous said...

Mehn, d judgment was so fast...hmm, I hope we borrow a leaf from ds...c'mon Linda, we don't need to belive wat she said..wat she needed was to prove dt d bag was not hers beyond reasonable doubt...law is not sentimental.

Str8FrmDaHips said...

Big fat lie..we all travel ha beg..before you even hand your bags in Custom would ask if you packed the bags yourself..someone in her capacity!!...she wan drive new Range come oppress for Lekki..well deserved..

Anonymous said...

5 1/2 years, Thats it???????? She should be jumping for joy!! People are getting 20 years for sh*t like that in the states and in Asia they are being put to sleep (permanent sleep).

Anonymous said...

yes linda.its possible. it can be hidden and you won't know. that's why they say check well before you carry something for someone or if they give you a bag cos u never know the hidden parts of the bag. she probably pled guilty based on advice to get a lighter sentence. That said sha, it's verrryyyyyyyy possible she did it

Anonymous said...

That girl no try at all

Anonymous said...

Wasted career. Power of greed

kcee said...

Get rich or die trying. But on a serious note, the risk she took is not worth it. Just for 250k pounds. I thought an Air Hostess earns good salary.

Anonymous said...

thats a big lie.....what a shame

Galore said...

I bliv the story LINDA,,,,,,,Not disputin the facts that she might be Lieing.....But this same story happned to somone i kno,,he was travelin to UK and somone brought him a photo frame to gv somone in LONDON,,,He checked the photo frame and put it in his Luggage,,thank GOD for a prophesy in church,,,pastor asked him to check the foto frame again,,Linda u cant bliv what we saw,,in the foto frame were hidden Cocaine..........*shocked*

Anonymous said...

Kcee u r kidding me right?250k pounds is over 60million naira o!!!!if she had carried it suCcessfully na range plus svral years in rent and bang and olufsen products all the way not to mention authentic prada bags and xtian loubs yafun yafun.

Anonymous said...

I thought you said 51 years

mama somtee said...

wey gbenga dey ?????? dis na igbo babe have not heard you talk kilode ?

Anonymous said...

What a waste.

Imsu strike said...

I pray she find peace in that powellen cell.

Anonymous said...

Sha don't think its her first time.....

Anonymous said...

IBo,iBo iBo too dey like money

Anonymous said...

HOW CAN SHE SAY SOMEONE GAVE HER THE BAG UPON HER EXPERIENCE AS A HOSTESS BIG LIE!!SOME GIRLS ARE JOBLESS IN NIGERIA YET THEY HAVE NOT PICKED ANOTHER PERSONS KOBO SHE HAS A GOOD JOB AND WANT MORE MONEY WHAT A SHAME! SHE WILL FOREVER LIVE WITH THE STIGMA OF THE "ARIK AIR HOSTESS COCAINE SMUGGLER".

grace said...

mama somtee erm she is an igbo babe so what. you are one of d many problems nigeria have.

Anonymous said...

igbo, igbo, igbo too like money.
OBASANJO- IGBO;
BODE GEORGE- IGBO;
DIMEJI "BANK THIEF" BANKOLE- IGBO;
TAFA "THIEF" BALOGUN- IGBO.
ABEGI, MAKE I HEAR WORD- HYPOCRITES!

Anonymous said...

she is lucky she only got 5.5 years. i know my neighbor that got 23 years. her daughter was 7 months when she went to jail. when she got back her dughter was 24 years old

sakara said...

Chinwendu Uwakaonyenma Ogbonnaya - igbo
Dr Collins Okafor - Igbo
Otokoto - Igbo
night bus marauder - igbo

I be igbo - my kinsmen make una stop i beg, e too do..kai

OnileEre! said...

@mama somtee. And it's true o. Been a while i saw that dude's post last. Maybe he has migrated to Ladun's blog. His ilks plenty there

Anonymous said...

five and a half yrs! not bad! 'cos if it were to be malaysia or any of the asian countries, nah death ooo! or middle east so , thank your stars!

Anonymous said...

@ anon 10:22pm, you nailed it! you're so damn right!Thank you.

The Great Oracle said...

@Mama Somtee. Gbenga is dead. A friend of his named Ayo posted this info on this blog sometimes in January this year, 1st week to be precise.

Ya'all Igbo are free from his rantings. Unless someone assumes his name & continue the rants.

For now, IGBO KWENU!!!!

Anonymous said...

Ibo woman again.Never trust an Ibo woman. Even the Linda ikenji here can sell human being for money. No be omoyibo she be?. I have been vindicated.
---Gbenga

Fiffy said...

@grace, mama somtee called gbenga based on what d clown said about d igbos in d fake doctors story.

Anonymous said...

gbenga gbenga gbenga ,the next time i hear an ibo woman from ur mouth amadioha will strike u.be warned


bootylucious diva

Anonymous said...

@ Anonymous Feb 4 12:09 pm, How can you say Ibo people again? Unless you are joking, I wonder what make you say that.
Do you want to know the name of Yorubas in UK prison?
I am yoruba by the way.

Back to the question, It can happen but I'll say years back (even years back). According to Anonymous 12:49am as an experience Hostess, she should know better.

I believe she is trying to use her power as an hostess to comit the crime.
If you are given anything by anyone ( I mean ANYBODY), ask them to open it right infront of you, let them know that it the policy of the airline.

Is better to lose your friends, cousin, sister, brother,uncle... than your dignity and life.

THINK BEFORE YOU ACT

Anonymous said...

I knw the arik lady in question,seen her a couple of times,you never can trust these staffs,believe shes bin doing this for a while now but just got caught.

Anonymous said...

Na wa oh

Anonymous said...

And Cecelia Ibru got 6 Months ! in a hospital were she was drinking cornflakes

Anonymous said...

Naim good for am. Anofia! Dragging 9ja's name in the mud. She doesn't want to work hard but wants to drive bentley overnight. Thief! The sentence is too short self! They would have given her 16 years.

Anonymous said...

Is she Kola Boof's Twin Sister? Cos, dey look so much alike.

M.J

Anonymous said...

well she will be like 35 when she gets out. not so bad.

Anonymous said...

she is lucky it wasnt in Malaysia or those weird Asian countries where u get caught with as small as a wrap of weed ur throat gets SLICED.....not to talk about COCAINE. lucky tin she be!

Anonymous said...

all these ibo boys n girls sef!

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