A Kenyan woman got arrested on Monday night while trying to smuggle 6.5 kgs of cocaine into Nigeria via Namdi Azikiwe International Airport( NAIA).
According to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency(NDLEA) Ms Angela Wairimu, 33, tried to sneak what they termed as the ‘largest consignment into Nigeria in the recent past’.
NDLEA communication boss Mr Jonah Achema said Ms Wairimu was nabbed on landing from South Africa.
Mr Achema said that she had hidden the cocaine in hand luggage. She had concealed some of the illicit substances in the false bottom of a travelling bag which also contained two wrapped parcel of the same illicit drug the officer said.
Ms Wairimu a mother of two told the detectives attached to the Agency that she was a trader dealing in clothes and cosmetics and also doubled up as a model.
“According to her, a friend in South Africa approached her to assist an unknown person to deliver the briefcase containing wears in Nigeria which was brought to her at the Airport through an errand boy,” said Achema.
Also, Wairimu confessed that she had an ailing daughter and the situation has put her under financial pressure.
“She denied being under any financial inducement but confessed that her daughter was suffering from acute leukemia which put her under financial pressure,” Achema said.
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