Why I used 10-year-old niece as drug courier – Lagos trader

<p>The Lagos State Police Command has nabbed a female trader, Taye Abass, who allegedly trafficked a hard drug known as Colorado, through her niece (name withheld) to evade police checks.</p>, <p>The woman who lives in the Oko Oba area of Lagos confessed to the offence while being paraded by the police at the state headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos on Tuesday.</p>, <p>Abass said she always used the girl to transport the drugs from their house to her shop to avoid being checked, as no one would suspect a small girl.</p>, <p>Abass said, “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.”</p>, <p>The woman who pleaded for leniency, begged for forgiveness saying it was because of hardship, adding that other accomplices had run away.</p>, <p>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.</p>, <p>“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.</p>, <p>“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 girl said.</p>, <p>Addressing the press, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, said the suspect was arrested through the collaborative efforts of the public and the police.</p>, <p>Hundeyin said, “This shows the success the collaboration with the public is yielding. The girl was found roaming the street and a good neighbor brought her to the station so she was taken to the station where she complained that she was being maltreated at hom