I WAS JUST TRYING TO RAISE MONEY, TO FREE MY KIDNAPPED MOTHER FROM THE B@NDITS- Mother of three arrested with drugs by NDLEA

A 35-year-old female passenger, by the name Jatau Lami Lydia has been apprehended by the agents of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), for drug trafficking. The mother of three has blamed her action on the bandits who kidnapped her mother, saying that all she wanted to do, was to raise N5m ransom to pay the said ‘’bandits’’.

Lydia  was arrested  at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, for attempting to export 1,700 tablets of Tramadol 225mg concealed in her luggage to Istanbul, Turkey,   on the 31^st of July 2022,via a Turkish Airline Flight,

 

The   said suspect hails from Zango Kataf LGA of Kaduna State and it is said that she lives in Istanbul, Turkey with her family. 

 

NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, August 7, said the suspect blamed her action on pressure to raise N5million ransom to free her mother from the captivity of bandits who kidnapped her since June 2022.