I didn’t know I was carrying cannabis – Suspect

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency attached to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos have arrested a 37-year-old woman, Ifeoma Ezeh, for attempting to smuggle cannabis weighed 6.2 kilogrammes to China.

Two parcels of cannabis were seized from the mother of three who pretended to be carrying vegetables rather than drugs.

It was gathered that the officials discovered the dried weeds inside the 37-year-old suspect’s bags while screening the passengers on board the Ethiopian Airline.

Eze, who sells female dresses at the Onitcha Market, said she was taking ‘the vegetables’ to one of his customers in China where she used to export foodstuff.

She said, “I am a businesswoman and I sell women clothes at main market Onitsha. I usually export foodstuff to China and import female dresses to Nigeria. One of my customers in China called me that his brother will give me two parcels of vegetables to take to him. I collected the parcels at the airport from the boy. Unfortunately, when they tested it, I was told that it was cannabis.”