Suspected Nigerian drug mule released
Publish date: 20 May 2019
Issue Number: 824
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: General
A Nigerian student who was arrested last year and wrongly accused of drug trafficking in Saudi Arabia has returned home, two weeks after she was freed. BBC News reports that Zainab Aliyu was reunited with her family at the Kano International Airport yesterday. Saudi authorities had accused her of smuggling 2 000 packs of Tramadol, a strong pain killer, in her bag. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency of Nigeria later confirmed that a gang, operating at the Kano airport, had been planting illicit drugs in travellers' luggage.
