A 33-year-old Kenyan lady recognized as Angela Wairimu has been arrested by the Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company(NDLEA) on the Nnamdi Azikiwe Worldwide Airport (NAIA) Abuja, Particular Space Command.
Based on reviews, Angela was making an attempt to smuggle 6.5 kilograms of Cocaine into Nigeria.
The one mum of two had left South Africa aboard an Ethiopian Airline flight to Abuja when she was nabbed and in accordance with NDLEA, this arrest is, in actual fact, the largest seizure in current instances.
Confirming her arrest, the spokesperson of the NDLEA, Jonah Achema, in a press release mentioned;
“Wairimu who shuttles between Kenya and South Africa claimed to be a modelling professional and a dealer in garments and cosmetics. Based on her, a pal in South Africa approached her to help an unknown individual to ship the transient case containing wears in Nigeria which was dropped at her on the Airport by means of an errand boy.
She was to ship the consignment to the husband of the sender who was to fulfill her on the NAIA, Abuja. She claimed to be on her second journey to Nigeria to obtain home-made physique magnificence merchandise and native materials for her enterprise referred to as La Mannequin in South Africa and Kenya. She denied being beneath any monetary inducement however confessed that her daughter was affected by acute leukaemia which put her beneath monetary stress,” Achema mentioned