Devoted Nigerian Muslim Grandmother Going To Saudi Arabia For Pilgrimage Arrested With Cocaine At Lagos Airport

A fifty-seven year-old grandmother, and textile merchant at Balogun market in Lagos, who was travelling to Saudi Arabia on a pilgrimage, has been arrested with cocaine concealed in her luggage, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency said in a statement on Saturday.
Odeyemi Omolara Morayo who claimed to be going on a pilgrimage to Jedda, Saudi Arabia had all the paraphernalia of a pilgrim save for the narcotic content of her luggage, said NDLEA spokesman, Mitchell Ofoyeju.
 She was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.
NDLEA commander at the Lagos airport, Ahmadu Garba explained that the two parcels of white powdery substance that tested positive for cocaine were carefully concealed inside her luggage.
“A female passenger, Odeyemi Omolara Morayo with a valid Egypt air ticket from Lagos to Saudi Arabia had been arrested with 1.595kg of cocaine. The cocaine which was concealed in a false bottom  of  her bag was discovered during routine check on passengers at the departure hall. We had to cut the bag open to recover the cocaine because of the way it was neatly concealed. She was immediately arrested and the case is currently under investigation”.
In her statement, the suspect said that her friend and customer was the one that introduced her into drug trafficking.
“I am a textile merchant at Balogun market, Lagos. I have two children and my daughter is married with children. Recently, I told my friend that I loved to go on pilgrimage this year and she promised to sponsor my trip. That was how she collected my international passport, processed my travel documents and bought return ticket on Egypt airline. The only favour she requested from me was that I should take a bag to Saudi. She also told me that somebody will collect the bag from me at Jeddah. It was an empty bag so I kept my personal effects inside it. On getting to the airport, officers discovered cocaine inside the bag during search and I was arrested,” Omolara stated. She hails from Ogun State.
This arrest is only few days after Justice B.O. Quadri of the Federal High Court Abuja sentenced a 55 year-old female pilgrim Binuyo Basirat Iyabo to ten years imprisonment with hard labour. Binuyo was caught last September smuggling 76 pellets of cocaine weighing 931 grammes to Medina, Saudi Arabia.

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