Lady caught with heroin in hair – Daily Trust
November 17, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi
Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 31-year old lady with 14 wraps of heroin stuffed inside her hair.
The suspect, Ms. Angela Okiri, who hails from Oredo in Edo State, also ingested 56 wraps of the drug and packed 22 other wraps inside a sanitary pad in her handbag. She was caught with a total of 92 wraps of heroin weighing 930 grammes, the agency said.
NDLEA’s Head of Public Affairs, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, said in a statement yesterday that Angela, who has lived in Bergamo, Italy, for the last 11 years and worked there as a labourer, was apprehended at the departure lounge of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, while attempting to board an Alitalia flight to Italy.
The suspect, whose final destination would have been Torino, claimed that friends introduced her to the drug business after being jobless for several months due to the economic recession.
