Mother Of Three Caught With Cannabis At MMIA AIrport

37-year-old Ezeh Ifeoma Maureen is a mother of three, She was arrested at Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos with substances suspected to be cannabis weighing 6.200 kilogrammes by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

She was caught at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) in  Ikeja, Lagos, during outward screening of China-bound Ethiopian Airlines Flight

When asked about the content of her bag“She declared the content of her bags as vegetables and foodstuff, but during a search, the vegetables turned out to be cannabis,The drug was packed in two parcels.” 

Maureen who hails from Anambra State, said: “I am a business woman; I sell women’s clothes at the Onitsha main market. I usually export foodstuff to China and import female dresses to Nigeria. One of my customers in China called to tell me that his brother would give me two parcels of vegetables to bring to him. I collected the parcels at the airport from the boy. Unfortunately, when they tested them, I was told that they contained cannabis.”

Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Ahmadu Giade, advised the public to learn from the cases of those arrested for drug trafficking. “This mother of three children would have been killed in China for drug trafficking if she was not apprehended here. It is important for the public to learn from her experience and shun drug trafficking,” he said and also warned passengers not to collect items from people, who will not be available during a search.

Source: The Nation