Two Nigerian Women Caught With Cocaine In Their Private Parts-PREMIUM TIMES
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency
said it has arrested two women attempting to
smuggle cocaine aboard a Qatar Airways flight
to China.
Deborah Alaka and Chinyere Chukwujekwu
were found to possess about 3 kilogrammes of
cocaine at the Murtala Mohammed
International Airport in Lagos.
The arrest came few weeks after some
Nigerians were executed in Indonesia for drug
trafficking.
The suspects said in their statements that they
were pushed into cocaine smuggling because
their husbands abandoned them, according to
the NDLEA.
“These women are curiously desperate for
ingesting drugs, packing some on their bodies
and inserting in their vagina,” Hamza Umar, the
NDLEA Commander at the Lagos Airport, said.
Mrs. Alaka, 47, was caught with 1.180kg of
cocaine – 260 grammes inserted into her private
part and 60 wraps weighing 920 grammes
ingested.
The agency caught Mrs. Chukwujekwu, 45, with
1.455kg of cocaine – 59 wraps packed on her
body, one parcel inserted into her private part,
and 10 wraps weighing 170 grammes ingested,
the NDLEA said.
“I got married early because there was no
money for me to further my studies after my
primary education,” Mrs. Chukwujekwu told
NDLEA investigators.
“My husband who is a retired soldier
abandoned me 10 years ago. Since then my life
has been sorrowful. I sell female clothes and
shoes to take care of my children.”
The suspect said she met a man at the market
who promised to assist her by introducing her
into the importation business.
“This was how we began to talk on phone. He
gives me recharge cards and money to sustain
myself,” Mrs. Chukwujekwu said.
“It was the day I was to travel that he told me
that I will take drugs to China. He took me to a
hotel where I was given the drugs and six
thousand dollars to buy my goods in China. I
could only swallow ten wraps, so I forced some
in my vagina and packed others in my
underwear.”
In her statement to the NDLEA, Mrs. Alaka said
her own husband abandoned her with seven
children.
“I sell female bags and shoes to sustain myself and
my children,” she said. “My husband left me in
2005 and since then I have been facing several
challenges.
“I took loan to travel to China and in the
process I incurred huge debt which
compounded my problems. At a point, I had no
money for food, school fees and even house
rent. This was what made me to smuggle drugs.
“I swallowed 59 wraps of drugs all through the
night because of 6,000 dollars. I also packed
some in my underwear and one in my vagina. It
was a terrible experience. I feel so sad that I
have to end up this way as a Christian.”
Ahmadu Giade, the NDLEA Chairman, described
the action of the women as “disgraceful.”
“It is good that the drugs were detected here by
our officials because China has capital
punishment for drug trafficking,” Mr. Giade
said.
“This arrest has saved them from death and the
country from embarrassment. Their action is
utterly disgraceful because as mothers they
ought to show good example for their children
to emulate.”
The NDLEA said the suspects would soon be
charged to court.
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