Barely one week after the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency paraded a suspected drug trafficker, operatives of the agency have arrested another suspect at the Port Harcourt International Airport.
The suspect, Mrs. Yusuf Rabiat Olabisi, was arrested
around 9pm on May 31, 2012, while attempting to travel to London after
ingesting 70 wraps of cocaine weighing 1.016 kilogrammes and valued at
N15m.
Olabisi, a 56-year-old mother of six, was said to
have excreted the wraps of cocaine under the close watch of the NDLEA
operatives at the airport.
It was gathered that the suspect, who was promised
three thousand pounds (N738,000) to deliver the drug to a client in
London, had already received one thousand pounds as advance payment.
Olabisi was expected to collect her two thousand pounds balance as soon as she delivers the drugs.
However, the suspect refused to speak with journalists.
The NDLEA Commander at the airport, Mr. Olutekunbi
Davies, said it was the second time the agency would be arresting
suspected drug peddlers at the airport in less than two weeks.
Davies expressed sadness that women were mostly
involved in drug trafficking in recent times, saying, “Women who are
supposed to be revered as mothers of the nation have decided not only to
soil the good image of motherhood, but hell-bent on dragging the image
of the country through the mud.
“NDLEA is very much ready to square up to those few
unscrupulous elements before they destroy the future of our dear nation.
The battle against drug trafficking is on and there shall be no
compromise.”
He restated that drug peddlers were attracted to the
airport as a result of the absence of the NDLEA scanning machine,
recalling that the equipment was removed due to the ongoing construction
at the airport.
He said the agency was making moves to bring in a smaller scanning
machine pending when the renovation of the airport would be completed.
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