Two women were on Saturday arrested at the Kotoka International Airport for allegedly swallowing a quantity of wrapped whitish substances suspected to be cocaine and hiding some in their under-pants. The suspects are Ernestina Adasa, 50, and Millicent Atieko, 48, both Ghanaian born Dutch citizens. The Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) said this is the first time females have been nabbed for swallowing illicit drugs. Women were often arrested with illicit substances hidden in their hair, clothes or private parts, Mr Mark Ewuntomah, Deputy Executive Secretary of NACOB, told journalists in Accra yesterday. Mr Wuntomah who was briefing the journalists on the arrest of the two, said they were picked up on Saturday when they were going through formalities to board a KLM flight to Amsterdam. A search on Adasa revealed 45 pellets of the wrapped substances hidden in her underpants and when she was made to pass through the x-ray (body scanner) machine, it detected that she had some foreign material in her stomach. She was subsequently taken to the offices of NACOB where she expelled 62 more of the pellets. According to Mr Ewuntomah, Adasa claimed that the substances, valued at 22,000 dollars, were given to her at a guesthouse at Kwashieman by one Joyce through one Chris both of whom she was unable to trace. When Atieko was searched, 33 pellets were found in her panties following which she was made to pass through the scanning machine which showed that she had foreign material in her stomach. She allegedly admitted swallowing 92 pellets of the substances and on being put under observation she expelled 90 pellets immediately. She said she bought the substances for 25,000 dollars a kilo through one Kwesi, whom she claimed she could not trace. Source: The Ghanaian Times