Police arrest three for allegedly trafficking cocaine to Saudi Arabia

Three individuals have been detained by the police in Kano State for allegedly helping to traffic cocaine to Saudi Arabia.

According to DAILY POST, command spokesman SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa confirmed the arrest.

He claimed that two of the suspects, Auwal Ishaq and Idris Sani Suleiman, told the police that one Hajiya Sharifat Abdullahi had used their wives in exchange for a trip to perform pilgrimage rituals with the understanding that they would deliver an undisclosed substance to a recipient at the airport in Saudi Arabia.

According to him, “On 11/07/2023 at about 1200hrs, one Auwal Ishaq of Kawo Quarters and Idris Sani Suleiman of Medile Quarters, Kano jointly reported to police that they were contacted in June 2023 by one Hajiya Sharifat Abdullahi of Kuregen Sani Hotoro, Kano to allow their wives to travel through international routes via Lagos Airport Terminal”.

“One of the complainants, Auwal Ishaq, claimed that he paid the sum of six million naira (N6,000,000:00) for his two wives; Binta Nasidi and Zulaihat Ahmed Adam, while Idris Sani Suleiman also claimed to have paid three million naira (N3,000,000:00) for his one wife, Rashida Abdullahi, on agreement for travelling together to perform Pilgrimage rites with the arrangement that they would convey some undisclosed substance in Saudi Arabia.

According to SP Kiyawa, both complainants expressed to the police their fear that they had lost communication with them after leaving Nigeria and that all attempts to contact them had failed.

Later, he claimed, one of the complainants informed police that he had learned from a phone call from one of his wives that they had all been detained by the Saudi Arabian Authority for offences related to trafficking in substances thought to be cocaine after this year's Hajj Operational activities were finished.

The complainants were a part of the arrangement and are aware that their wives will be used as couriers of the said undisclosed contents to be delivered to a lady at the airport in Saudi Arabia, according to SP Kiyawa, who also confirmed that police investigation resulted in the arrest of the primary suspect, Hajiya Sharifat Abdullahi.

The two wives of Auwal were promised a million naira (N1,000,000.00) each when they returned following a successful delivery, but Idris Sani was promised a payment of N150,000.00 as compensation for acting as a middleman and lying about being Rashidat Abdullahi's husband.

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