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A Swiss lady in her early 20s has been arrested by men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for being in possession of large quality of hard dug suspected to be cocaine.
A Swiss lady in her early 20s has been arrested by men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for being in possession of large quality of hard dug suspected to be cocaine.
Daily Sun learnt that she was 15 when she joined the hard drug business alongside her Nigerian boyfriend.
Identified as Frankhauser Eva Aileen, the Swiss national and her boyfriend Okeke Franklyn Stanley Emeka, were arrested during the outward clearance of KLM (Royal Dutch Airline) to Amsterdam.
It was gathered that the drug traffickers knew each other in Switzerland and had been living together in Zurich since 2001 before their trip to Nigeria.
Parading the suspects among 25 others in his office, in Ikeja, Lagos, the NDLEA Commander, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Abdullahi Danburam said the Swiss girl and her loverboy "concealed 11 parcels of cocaine each on their body using swimming shorts and girdles."
Speaking further, Damburam said NDLEA has recorded arrest the of 57 drug traffickers in the first quarter of the year, adding; "that is already about half of our total arrest for the year 2004. We have also made seizures of 90.485kgs of various types of hard drugs in the same quarter".
The Swiss national told Daily Sun that she left her parents at the age of 15 and started living with Emeka who introduced her to the illegal business.
According to her, Emeka who had been in the business for long deceived her that he was doing legal business adding; "he washes plates in a restaurant so, I though that it was his business. It become too late for me when I discovered his kind of business".
Damburam warned other traffickers who want to gamble with trafficking drug to Nigeria to desist and go into legitimate businesses in order not to embarrasses their families, adding; "we must continue to parade them, the public should know that before we parade any suspect, he must have been arrested with drugs."