The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Sunday said its operatives arrested
A 27-year-old woman, Opoola Mujidat, has been arrested for concealing hard drugs in bowls of black soap, and exporting it to Oman through two passengers travelling from Lagos.
The NDLEA arrested her before she left the departure hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.
The passengers, Raji Kazeem and Akinbobola Omoniyi, were travelling together to Oman on an Ethiopian Airline flight on Monday, July 11, when the drug agency stopped them.
The spokesman for the agency, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, said, “A search of their luggage revealed wraps of cannabis sativa hidden in bowls of native black soap and sponge packed into a bag containing food items, which Kazeem was carrying.”
Both passengers quickly informed the anti-narcotic officers that Mujidat, who was still within the vicinity, gave the bag containing the illicit substance to them at the airport and she was promptly arrested.
Oppola accepted responsibility, adding she brought the luggage for the two passengers to give to her husband in Oman.
“Mujidat, who hails from Oyo East LGA in Oyo State, confessed during a preliminary interview that the bag containing the food items was packed by her with different items, including the black soap used to conceal the illicit substance,” the agency said.