A woman, Miss Ijeoma Franca, has been arrested while trying to smuggle Indian hemp concealed in a carton of spicy biscuit into the Medium Security Prisons, in Kuje, Abuja.
The drugs concealed in a carton of biscuit was discovered during a routine search on visitors by the prison officers.
The Federal Capital Territory Prison Command spokesman, Humphrey Chukwuedo, in a statement on Wednesday, stated that the lady claimed during interrogation that one Daniel engaged her to deliver the package to his brother, Miracle Amechi, an inmate in the prison.
Chukwuedo stated,
“During the interrogation, she claimed that one Mr Daniel had engaged her to take some package to his brother, Mr Miracle Amechi, who is an inmate in Kuje prisons and the package includes a carton of spicy biscuit, rolls of milk and milo, shirts and N2,500 and that she was ignorant of the real content of the carton of spicy biscuit.”
Meanwhile, the Controller of Prisons, FCT Command, Sylvester Nwakuche, has warned visitors to the prison to shun smuggling of hard drugs to prison inmates and encouraging its use in whatever manner.
He noted that the use of hard drugs not only compromised reformation and rehabilitation of prisoners but also had a debilitating effect on their health.
The spokesman said that the suspect had been handed over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for further action.
