It was gathered that the suspect disguised as a visitor to one of the inmates but was apprehended during a search by the correctional service officials.
Officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) have arrested a woman identified as Precious Yusuf for attempting to smuggle drugs into the Kuje Medium Security Custodial Centre in Abuja.
It was gathered that the suspect disguised as a visitor to one of the inmates but was apprehended during a search by the correctional service officials.
This is contained in a statement released on Wednesday by the spokesperson for the FCT command of the service, Adamu Duza, who said the suspect concealed the drugs in food packs.
Duza said the woman confessed that she was sent to deliver the drugs to an inmate in the facility.
The statement read, “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 Controller of Corrections, FCT Command, Ibrahim Usman, directed that the woman should be handed over to the Nigerian Drug Law Agency for investigation and prosecution,” the statement said.
Duza said the controller warned those planning to perpetrate the same crime to desist.
“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,” he said.
