Ogun: Female visitor nabbed for smuggling ’Colos’ to death row inmate

Ogun State Command of the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS, has arrested a pistillate visitor, identified arsenic Mrs Iyabo Sowunmi, for attempting to smuggle suspected illicit drugs into the Medium Security Custodial Centre, MSCC, Ibara, Abeokuta.

The fishy was apprehended astatine astir 1:33 p.m. on Friday during regular screening astatine the facility’s main introduction point, aft officers detected suspicious substances hidden wrong a 1kg sachet of Milo beverage powder.

The substance is believed to beryllium the psychoactive synthetic cause commonly known arsenic “Colos”.

The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Odukoya Olayinka, confirmed the incidental to DAILY POST on Monday.

Olayinka stated that the fishy was attempting to present the bundle to an inmate, Dare Sowunmi, who is presently connected decease enactment astatine the facility.

Following the interception, the officers detained Mrs Sowunmi and handed her implicit to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA) for broad probe and prosecution.

Reacting to the incident, the State Controller of Corrections, Abioye Adesina, commended his unit for their vigilance and adherence to information protocols.

Controller Adesina reiterated the Command’s zero-tole...