The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency reported on Sunday that its agents had detained Opoola Mujidat, 27, a suspected drug dealer, for planting drugs on two male passengers traveling to Oman in the departure area of Lagos’ Murtala Muhammed International Airport while they were wearing fetish bowls filled with “scary native black soap and sponge.”
Raji Kazeem and Akinbobola Omoniyi, the passengers, were allegedly traveling to Oman together on an Ethiopian Airlines flight on July 11 when they were stopped by NDLEA agents at the airport.
The spokesman for the agency, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, said, “A search of their luggage revealed wraps of cannabis sativa hidden in bowls of native black soap and sponge packed into a bag containing food items, which Kazeem was carrying.”
According to the statement, Mujidat was arrested when Kazeem and Omoniyi informed the anti-narcotic officials that she had given them the bag carrying the illegal material at the airport while she was still nearby.
According to reports, the woman took owned up to the situation and admitted guilt, saying that she brought the bags for the two travellers to present to her husband in Oman.
“Mujidat, who hails from Oyo East LGA in Oyo State, confessed during a preliminary interview that the bag containing the food items was packed by her with different items, including the black soap used to conceal the illicit substance,” the statement added.
