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NDLEA preliminary investigation revealed that this is the first time a grandmother of 60 years would ingest a whopping 83 wraps of narcotics.
According to NDLEA Commander in charge of Lagos airport, Ahmadu Garba, “Adebayo Ebunoluwa Mercy was arrested while boarding a Virgin Atlantic flight to New York while Amodu Ayisat Grace was caught trying to board an Ethiopian airline flight on her way to Medina, Saudi Arabia. The cases are under investigation”.
The agency during interrogation quoted Ebunoluwa, who sells provision at Ikorodu, Lagos, as saying that drug trafficking was an afterthought.
Amodu told investigators that as a muslim she was glad to travel to Saudi Arabia but her journey terminated at the NDLEA office.
In reaction to the arrests, NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive, Col. Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah (retd.) said that it is shocking and shameful for grandmothers to be involved in drug trafficking.
“This move by drug cartels to recruit grandmothers as mules is very disturbing, shocking and shameful. The moral emptiness exhibited by the suspects must be condemned by all. A situation where grandmothers have become a bad influence on their children and grandchildren is highly regrettable” Abdallah stated.