Drug trafficker arrested in Port Harcourt

Barely one week after the National Drug Law Enforcement
Agency paraded a suspected drug trafficker, operatives of
the agency have arrested another suspect at the Port
Harcourt International Airport.
The suspect, Mrs. Yusuf Rabiat Olabisi, was arrested
around 9pm on May 31, 2012, while attempting to travel
to London after ingesting 70 wraps of cocaine weighing
1.016 kilogrammes and valued at N15m.
Olabisi, a 56-year-old mother of six, was said to have
excreted the wraps of cocaine under the close watch of the
NDLEA operatives at the airport.
It was gathered that the suspect, who was promised three
thousand pounds (N738,000) to deliver the drug to a client
in London, had already received one thousand pounds as
advance payment.
Olabisi was expected to collect her two thousand pounds
balance as soon as she delivers the drugs.
However, the suspect refused to speak with journalists.
The NDLEA Commander at the airport, Mr. Olutekunbi
Davies, said it was the second time the agency would be
arresting suspected drug peddlers at the airport in less than
two weeks.
Davies expressed sadness that women were mostly
involved in drug trafficking in recent times, saying,
“Women who are supposed to be revered as mothers of
the nation have decided not only to soil the good image of
motherhood, but hell-bent on dragging the image of the
country through the mud.
“NDLEA is very much ready to square up to those few
unscrupulous elements before they destroy the future of our
dear nation. The battle against drug trafficking is on and
there shall be no compromise.”
He restated that drug peddlers were attracted to the airport
as a result of the absence of the NDLEA scanning machine,
recalling that the equipment was removed due to the
ongoing construction at the airport.
He said the agency was making moves to bring in a
smaller scanning machine pending when the renovation of
the airport would be completed.