A female suspected drug trafficker has been apprehended by personnel of the Lagos State Police Command.
The suspect, Taye Abbas, allegedly trafficked a hard drug known as Colorado, through her niece (name withheld) to evade police checks.
It was gathered that the suspect resides in the Oko Oba area of Lagos.
She was said to have confessed to the offence while being paraded by the police at the state headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos.
Stating her reason for using the minor to transport hard drugs, Abass said 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.”
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Pleading for leniency, the suspect said she started trafficking drugs due to hardship, adding that other accomplices had run away.
The underage girl, narrating her part of the story said when she wanted to bathe at the police station, 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.”