Zainab Aliyu Kila, the Nigerian lady framed by a drug cartel while traveling for lesser Hajj in Saudi Arabia in 2018, has joined the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
Recall
that on December 26, 2018, Miss Aliyu, then a student at Maitama Sule
University, Kano, was arrested by Saudi authorities for allegedly traveling
with a luggage containing unlawful substances believed to be tramadol. Zainab
had travelled through the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, MAKIA, for
Lesser Hajj with her mother, Maryam, and sister, Hajara. Shortly after she
arrived at the Jeddah Airport, the Saudi Authorities intercepted a bag
containing banned substances and traced it to Zainab and she was arrested in
her hotel room.
She was
charged and detained for four months by the Saudi Arabian anti-drug trafficking
agency over alleged drug trafficking charges.
After
several appeals by her parents, media, and civil society organization,
authorities discovered that drug barons, in connivance with Kano airport
workers, tagged a luggage containing the drugs in her name. She was released after Nigerian and Saudi
authorities independently investigated the matter and established her innocence
She
returned to the Nigeria completed her mandatory one-year NYSC scheme, and has
now been enlisted into the NDLEA. She was among the 2,000 newly trained NDLEA
officers commissioned at the agency’s academy in Jos, Plateau State on Friday,
November 19.
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