57 Year Old Grandma Arrested for Trying to Smuggle Cocaine Out of Nigeria
Odeyemi Omolara Morayo, a 57 year-old grandmother, was arrested at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos while attempting to board an Egypt Air flight, smuggling cocaine.
She is a textile merchant at Balogun market and said she was embarking on lesser hajj when she was caught with the substance weighing 1.595kg.
Ahmadu Garba, who is the NDLEA (National Drug & Law Enforcement Agency) commander at the Lagos airport, explained to Daily Trust that the two parcels of white powdery substance, which tested positive for cocaine were carefully concealed inside her luggage.
“The cocaine which was concealed in a false bottom of her bag was discovered during routine check on passengers at the departure hall. We had to cut the bag open to recover the cocaine because of the way it was neatly concealed. She was immediately arrested and the case is currently under investigation”, Garba said.
Omolara, while giving her own side of the story, had this to say to newsmen,
“I am a textile merchant at Balogun market, Lagos. I have two children and my daughter is married with children. Recently, I told my friend that I loved to go on pilgrimage this year and she promised to sponsor my trip. That was how she collected my international passport, processed my travel documents and bought return ticket on Egypt airline. The only favour she requested from me was that I should take a bag to Saudi. She also told me that somebody will collect the bag from me at Jeddah. It was an empty bag so I kept my personal effects inside it. On getting to the airport, officers discovered cocaine inside the bag during search and I was arrested” Omolara stated.
The chairman and Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah said to reporters, that not only did the agency save her from execution as drug trafficking attracts capital punishment in Saudi Arabia, they also managed to salvage whatever was left of the good name of our country Nigeria.
She’s lucky she was caught in naija and not a country that gives a death penalty to drug traffickers.
Walahi she should thank her stars that Saudi government weren’t the ones that caught her. They always tell these tales of naivety, who is still naive these days?
senseless grandma.