Attempt by a 65-year-old grandmother,
Hassan Abike, to smuggle 1.74kg of cocaine concealed in herbal syrup
containers to London has been foiled by the officials of the National
Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
Abike was to board a British Airways
flight on Wednesday when she was arrested at the Murtala Mohammed
International Airport, Lagos.
According to a statement by the
spokesperson of the NDLEA, Mitchell Ofoyeju, on Thursday, the suspect
packed the drug in balloons and placed it in 10 plastic containers of
herbal syrup.
He said the drug which was found in her bag tested positive to cocaine and weighed 1.74kg.
Ofoyejo quoted the Airport Commander,
Hamza Umar, as saying that the suspect was also found carrying two
passports bearing her name with numbers A03348648 and A3771781 when she
was arrested.
Umar reportedly said, “The cocaine found
in her possession was packed in balloons and prepared into the shape of
the plastic bottles.
“It was also wrapped in black polythene
inside 10 plastic bottles of local herbal mixtures. Each bottle was
neatly sealed to avoid suspicion.”
Ofoyejo said the suspect admitted
ownership of the drug, adding that she claimed, “it was given to her by a
male friend to give to his sick relative in London.”
The NDLEA spokesperson added that the
Chairman/Chief Executive of the agency, Ahmadu Giade, had directed that
her claims be investigated to ascertain her role in the incident.
He explained that the suspect would be charged to court as soon as investigations were concluded.
Source: Punch
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