Drug Trafficking: Detained Nigerian Returns Home After Four Months In Saudi Arabia

A female Nigerian understudy, Zainab Aliyu, who was confined for supposed medication dealing by the Saudi Arabian experts arrived the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano on Monday subsequent to going through four months in detainment.

Compact News reports that Zainab touched base at the airplane terminal at precisely 10 am, close by another Nigerian, Ibrahim Abubakar, who was likewise confined for a comparable case. They were liberated after the intercession of the Federal Government.

Zainab, a 22-year-old understudy of the Maitama Sule University in Kano, had made a trip to Saudi Arabia for lesser hajj nearby her mom and sister.

She was captured by the Saudi police over charges that the sack bearing her unofficial ID contained tramadol.

Zainab and Abubakar were discharged to the Nigerian mission in Saudi Arabia after the Federal Government endeavored endeavors to examine and set up their guiltlessness.

On landing from Saudi Arabia, Zainab was gotten by her dad, nearby other relatives, companions and well-wishers. They from that point boarded a holding up vehicle, which drove them to their Kundila habitation, in the Tarauni Local Government Area of the state.

She was gotten by a joyous group that had assembled at her dad's home.

Miss Aliyu was captured on December 26, 2018, multi day after her entry in Saudi Arabia to play out the lesser Hajj.

In the interim, a Senior Program Officer, Center for Information Technology and Development, Mallam Isah Garba, has approached the agents of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to augment security at the country's airplane terminals so as to check exercises of medication pushers.

Tending to newsmen in Kano on Monday, Garba said Zainab Aliyu's experience had demonstrated that the NDLEA had a ton to do in guaranteeing that medicate noblemen and dealers were beaten to their amusement at airplane terminals the nation over.

He asks the security organization to capture and indict the genuine proprietors of the baggage that put the female understudy stuck in an unfortunate situation in Saudi Arabia.

Garba says with the understudy's understanding, "there will be a lot increasingly guiltless Nigerians in the Saudi detainment camp."

He encourages the NDLEA to escalate the hunt and reconnaissance of travelers' baggage, just as the encompassing condition amid boarding, in order to guarantee that no gear was altered after the genuine proprietor had checked in.