Why I used 10-year-old niece as drug courier – Lagos trader
The Lagos State Police Command has nabbed a female trader, Taye Abass, who allegedly trafficked a hard drug known as Colorado, through her niece (name withheld) to evade police checks.
The woman who lives in the Oko Oba area of Lagos confessed
to the offence while being paraded by the police at the state headquarters in
Ikeja, Lagos on Tuesday.
Abass said she always used the girl to transport the drugs
from their house to her shop to avoid being checked, as no one would suspect a
small girl.
Abass said, “When I went to Ilorin, my mother asked me to
bring her with me to Lagos about two months ago. I sell drinks. When she got to
my place, feeding was hard. Where I usually take my drinks for sale, somebody
then introduced me to Colorado that I should be selling it. He told me the
police always arrested people selling it. So whenever I am taking the drinks
for sale, I usually put it (the drug) in her underwear, and ask her to put it
in the shop where I always collect it back from her.”
The woman who pleaded for leniency, begged for forgiveness
saying it was because of hardship, adding that other accomplices had run away.
Speaking, the underage girl said she was brought to the
police station and when she wanted to bathe, the drug was found on her body.
“I told them it is my sister’s mum that put it on me. She
started putting it on me when I came to her place.
“She used to sell it but I don’t know those that do come to
buy it. She tells me she puts it on my body because the police can not search
me,” the girl said.
Addressing the press, the state Police Public Relations
Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, said the suspect was arrested through the
collaborative efforts of the public and the police.
Hundeyin said, “This shows the success the collaboration
with the public is yielding. The girl was found roaming the street and a good
neighbor brought her to the station so she was taken to the station where she
complained that she was being maltreated at home, and she ran away while
running an errand. While she was being made to have her bath and change her
clothes, it was discovered that the drug was hidden in her panties and that
prompted further questions.”
“We extended the investigation to her home and we were able
to bring her guardian to the station at the Pen Cinema Division. She did not
deny it; she admitted that had been her way to courier the drugs from her home
to her shops
“The girl will be handed over to her family and the suspect
will be prosecuted accordingly,” the PPRO stated.
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