A thirty-three year old
woman, Angela Wairimu, has been arrested by the eational Drug Law Enforcement
Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja,
Special Area Command, for attempting to smuggle 6.5 kilograms of Cocaine into
Nigeria.
The single mother of two
children was arrested on arrival from South Africa aboard an Ethiopian Airline
flight to Abuja. The arrest has been labeled by the agency officials as the
biggest seizure in recent times.
In a statement issued by
the spokesperson of the NDLEA, Jonah Achema, it was revealed that some of the
illicit substance was concealed in the false bottom of a travelling bag which
also contained two wrapped parcels of the same illicit drug, and which she
carried as hand luggage.
“Wairimu who shuttles
between Kenya and South Africa claimed to be a modelling expert and a trader in
clothes and cosmetics. According to her, a friend in South Africa approached
her to assist an unknown person to deliver the brief case containing wears in
Nigeria which was brought to her at the Airport through an errand boy.
She was to deliver the
consignment to the husband of the sender who was to meet her at the NAIA,
Abuja. She claimed to be on her second trip to Nigeria to procure home-made
body beauty products and local fabrics for her enterprise called La Model in
South Africa and Kenya. She denied being under any financial inducement but
confessed that her daughter was suffering from acute leukaemia which put her
under financial pressure,” Achema said
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