A desperate couple eager to
make quick money through
drug trafficking has landed in
the net of the National Drug
Law Enforcement Agency
(NDLEA). The couple and their
six-year-old twins were
nabbed by officials of the
NDLEA at the Murtala
Muhammed International
Airport, Lagos, while boarding
an Arik Air flight to London on
Sunday, March 28.
According to the spokesman of
the NDLEA, Mitchell Ofoyeju, the
family head, Jimoh Oladega
Bashir (46), his wife, Jimoh
Mulikat Adebukola and their
six-year-old twins were
carrying 4.050 kg of white
powdery substance that tested
positive to cocaine.
Though the man had no drugs
on him, the wife concealed
3.350kg in almost every part
of her body. She had some on
her breast and underwear. The
innocent six years old twins
were also used in packing 700
grammes of the illicit drugs.
According to Ofoyeju, the
couple has a supermarket at
Ajah, Lagos, adding that it was
painful that they still engaged
in the illicit act.
“Their reason for carrying
drugs was that they were
swindled of N2.2 million and
needed to smuggle the drugs
to enable them pay the school
fees of their children.
Ofoyeju quoted Jimoh as
saying: “We were to be paid
£3,000 while some quantity of
the drugs would have been
given to us. Initially, I rejected
the suggestion but they
convinced my wife who
persuaded me to do it. My son
is at the Fountain University,
Osogbo and I need to pay their
school fees.”
The wife also blamed their
involvement on school fees
and other family financial
responsibilities. In her words:
“I have problem of my
children’s school fees. I have
six children and I intend to
give them good education. I
also have younger ones and
aged parents to take care of.
They asked me to swallow the
drugs, but I was afraid, that is
why I packed them in my
body,” she stated.
The NDLEA spokesman said the
twins had been released to the
family members, but the couple
will soon be charged to court.
Chairman of NDLEA, Ahmadu
Giade, at a public forum in
Bauchi State, last week, had
warned real and potential
culprits of hard drugs that the
agency was ready, willing and
able to keep up the fight
against hard drugs.
He had called on stakeholders
to intensify drug control
efforts, as he identified illicit
drug trafficking as a major
threat to political stability in
West Africa.

don't blame them they had to do something for money to settle there wants!

shoot them

So the abunan has become a warehouse abi?