Thursday, July 11, 2024 - A woman identified as Precious Yusuf has been arrested by officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service for allegedly attempting to smuggle drugs to an inmate at the Kuje Medium Security Custodial Centre in Abuja.
The suspect was said to have disguised
as a visitor to one of the inmates but was apprehended during a search by the
correctional service officials. In a statement released, the FCT command
spokesperson of the service, Adamu Duza, said the accused concealed the
drugs in food packs and later confessed that she was sent to deliver the drugs
to an inmate in the facility.
“The Nigerian Correctional Service,
FCT Command has apprehended a lady called Precious Yusuf trying to push in
drugs to an inmate of the Medium Security Custodial Centre Kuje, Abuja. This
occurred on Tuesday when the above-named lady came in the guise of a visitor to
an inmate. During the usual routine search by officers of the Kuje Custodial
Centre, items suspected to be Indian hemp and other dangerous drugs were
concealed in food packs in a carton. The culprit confessed to having been sent
to bring this to an inmate of the custodial centre.” the statement read
He noted that the Controller of
Corrections, FCT Command, Ibrahim Usman, directed that the woman be handed over
to the Nigerian Drug Law Agency for investigation and prosecution.
“The Controller of Corrections, FCT
Command, Ibrahim Usman, has since ordered that the suspect be handed over to
the Nigerian Drug Law Agency for further investigation and prosecution. Usman
cautioned and warned drug peddlers to desist from trying to smuggle in illicit
substances into the custodial centres in the guise of visits as his officers
and men are on alert to deflate such a plot.”
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