The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 10-year-old girl for being in possession of hard drugs.
The girl, who was intercepted in the Agege area of the state, claimed she had been a drug courier for her aunt for about two months.
She narrated how she carries drugs daily from home to the shop to evade arrest by security operatives.
The police also nabbed the girl’s aunt, Taye Abass, who allegedly trafficked a hard drug known as Colorado, through her to evade police checks.
Abass confessed to the offence while being paraded by the police at the state headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos on Tuesday.
The female said she always used her niece to transport the drugs from their house to her shop to avoid being checked, as no one would suspect a small girl.
Abass revealed: “When I went to Ilorin, my mother asked me to bring her with me to Lagos about two months ago. I sell drinks. When she got to my place, feeding was hard. Where I usually take my drinks for sale, somebody then introduced me to Colorado that I should be selling it. He told me the police always arrested people selling it. So whenever I am taking the drinks for sale, I usually put it (the drug) in her underwear, and ask her to put it in the shop where I always collect it back from her.”
Speaking, the underage girl said she was brought to the police station and when she wanted to bathe, the drug was found on her body.
She said: “I told them it is my sister’s mum that put it on me. She started putting it on me when I came to her place.
“She used to sell it but I don’t know those that do come to buy it. She tells me she puts it on my body because the police can not search me.”
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 10-year-old girl for being in possession of hard drugs.
The girl who was intercepted in the Agege area of the state claimed she had been a drug courier for her aunt in the last two months.https://t.co/PQaXjg8gHo pic.twitter.com/wEQWXbcsPG
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