A female corps member(name witheld) is now in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over drug parcel sent to her by a London-based friend who she met on the popular social network, Facebook.
According to Audio Nigeria, the lady had, at the weekend, received a telephone call from her friend in London about the arrival of the parcel with instructions on whom to hand it to once she collected it.
The parcel had arrived Lagos enroute Abuja, at the weekend, but officials of the courier firm in collaboration with the NDLEA directed their Abuja office to ensure that the parcel was opened before the beneficiary was allowed to take it away.
The corps member, who had gone to the Abuja office of a courier company to collect the parcel, received the shock of her life when vigilant drug police, on searching the parcel, discovered a pack of cocaine. The parcel, a small container, has within it three packs of cocaine concealed inside a wall clock.
The lady under interrogation said she met the man on Facebook and was under instruction to hand over the parcel to another friend also based in Abuja.
When pressed further, the female corps member was said to have confessed that this was not the first time she would be collecting parcels from her London friend with the shoe she was wearing at the point of her arrest said to be a product of previous transactions.
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