The police in Lagos State have detained a 44-year-old lady named Taiwo Abass for allegedly exploiting her niece as a narcotics courier.
Tuesday at the state police command headquarters in Ikeja, Benjamin Hundeyin, the state police image maker, paraded the woman in front of reporters.
According to the police image creator, the offender was apprehended when a Good Samaritan discovered the unidentified 10-year-old girl in the state’s Agege region.
The young child was reportedly escorted to Pen Cinema Police Station, where officers attempted to bathe her when they found illegal substances in her underwear.
The discovery led to more inquiries, which revealed that this has been going on for a while, according to Hundeyin. As a result, we must expand the inquiry to include her home, and we were successful in bringing her guardian (the suspect) there.
“She made no denials. She said that she had used this strategy to get around police checks by couriering her drugs from her house to the store where she sells them.
“That is why we are exposing her to Nigerians and the method used by drug barons to courier drugs within the metropolis,” the Lagos police image maker added.
According to Hundeyin, the young child would be sent to her Ilorin-based parents while the culprit is prosecuted.
The young girl told reporters that the suspect, who is her mother’s sister, drove her from Ilorin, Kwara State, to Lagos.
She continued, saying that two days after she arrived in Lagos, her aunt—whom she referred to as “Mummy”—put narcotics in her pants and told her to take them to her shop.
“That is why we are exposing her to Nigerians and the method used by drug barons to courier drugs within the metropolis,” the Lagos police image maker added.
According to Hundeyin, the young child would be sent to her Ilorin-based parents while the culprit is prosecuted.
The young girl told reporters that the suspect, who is her mother’s sister, drove her from Ilorin, Kwara State, to Lagos.
She continued, saying that two days after she arrived in Lagos, her aunt—whom she referred to as “Mummy”—put narcotics in her pants and told her to take them to her shop.
“My’mummy’ told me that she has to plant the drugs on me due to police search,” the victim added. Police won’t search me if I get past them.
I always feel depressed when she gives me medications. She will beat me, therefore I won’t be upset. My mother is in Ilorin, and my father is deceased.
I want the cops to take me to my grandfather, the young girl continued. In this Lagos, there is my grandfather.
The suspect admitted to selling illegal drugs, but said that a man he only gave his first name as Azeez had only recently introduced her to the trade.
She begged the cops to pardon her and said that she had dispatched the young child to get bread when she vanished.
