A Senegalese woman identified as Sall Fatou has been arrested by
officers of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, Zone A, Lagos state,
for allegedly attempting to cross the Seme border with cocaine.
The
45-year-old suspect, according to reports, concealed the drugs in her
private part and was intercepted by curious Immigration officers whose
suspicion was triggered by her nervous posture at the border.
The
Zone A Assistant Comptroller-General of Immigration, Mr. Musa Maza,
while confirming and disclosing the arrest, said, “The suspect’s nervous
posture aroused suspicion when our officers at the border accosted her.
“She claimed to be a courier and not a drug dealer, adding that she was sent to deliver the drugs to someone in Senegal.
“The drug was uncovered within her private part,” Maza confirmed.
Speaking
in French, Fatou, confessed before newsmen saying she was only playing
the role of a ‘middle-person’; claiming that she didn’t not know the
person who supplied the drugs.
Fatou said, “The drug was given to
me at midnight by someone I do not know. My own role is to deliver the
drugs to someone I also do not know in Senegal but I was caught at the
border.
“I never knew I would fall into this kind of trap. I really regret my actions,” she added.
The
Assistant Comptroller-General, however, said the suspect had been
handed over to narcotic officers from the National Drug Law Enforcement
Agency, NDLEA at the headquarters of the NIS, Ikeja, Lagos for further
investigation and prosecution.
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