Nigerian Woman Detained In Lagos For Exploiting A 10-Year-Old Girl To Deliver Narcotics

&NewLine;<p><strong>A female drug dealer named Taiye Abbas has been detained by men from the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly exploiting her 10-year-old niece as a drug courier in Lagos&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The defendant&comma; who is the minor&&num;8217&semi;s aunt&comma; allegedly put narcotics in the young girl&&num;8217&semi;s pants to get around security guards&period; Speaking to reporters&comma; the young girl revealed that the 44-year-old is her mother&&num;8217&semi;s sister and that she brought her to Lagos after her father&&num;8217&semi;s passing from Kwara State&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>She moved me from Ilorin to Lagos two months ago&comma; and since then&comma; she has been using me to transport drugs from the residence to her shop<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;occupygh&period;com&sol;">&period;<&sol;a> She would put narcotics inside my underwear after I took a morning bath&comma; and I would transport them to her shop&period; Mummy would discretely remove the medications and offer them for sale to some of the daily visitors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Mummy informed me that due to the presence of police officers and other security personnel&comma; she had to hide the pills in my underwear&period; Because they could believe that I was innocent&comma; the police would let me pass while carrying drugs and would not search me&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Anytime she gave me medicines&comma; I felt depressed&period; Because she would hit me&comma; I refrained from complaining&period; it&&num;8217&semi;s my dad<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>When questioned&comma; the suspect said that one Azeez had introduced her to the industry around three months prior&comma; and that she had only recently begun using her niece as a drug courier two months prior&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I sent her across the street to get a loaf of bread&comma; but she got lost&period; When I received a call asking me to visit the police station to identify a toddler found wandering the streets&comma; I was still hunting for her&period; When I arrived at the station in a hurry&comma; I saw that the child was my niece&period; Unaware of the threat around&comma; I was relieved to have located my missing niece&period; When the police officers in the station began questioning me about the drugs they had discovered in her pants&comma; I was shocked&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>She promised not to commit the crime again&comma; though&comma; and begged the police for leniency&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The suspect was apprehended when her niece was found wandering the streets and brought to Pen Cinema Police Division by a neighbor&comma; according to Benjamin Hundeyin&comma; a spokesperson for the Lagos state police command&period; According to Hundeyin&comma; the Divisional Police Officer &lpar;DPO&rpar; instructed the girl to take a bath while they searched for her parents while they were at the station&period; He claimed that the cops found some suspected hard drugs&comma; Colorado&comma; hidden in the girl&&num;8217&semi;s underwear when she attempted to take a bath&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The discovery sparked additional inquiries&comma; which showed that this had been going on for a while&period; Our inquiry had to be expanded to include her home&comma; and we were able to bring her guardian—the suspect—to the police station&period; She didn&&num;8217&semi;t dispute it&period; She said that she had used this strategy to get around police checks by shipping drugs from her house to the store&comma; where she would sell them&period; We are exposing her and the current system drug barons are using to deliver drugs around the city because of this&period; The girl will be returned to her family in Ilorin&comma; while the suspect will face appropriate legal action&period;Hundeyin remarked&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source<&sol;strong>&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;OccupyGh&period;com">OccupyGh&period;com<&sol;a> <&sol;p><p class&equals;"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;chat&period;whatsapp&period;com&sol;JVGCtXdCoiKHCI3CXwMC5l" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">Tap To Join Our<&sol;a> WhatsApp Community<&sol;p> &NewLine;

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