The Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a 60-year-old fish-farmer,
Muyiwa Otuyalo, for attempting to smuggle in a substance believed to be hard
drug for his son, Damilola, who is currently in the custody of the commission.
The older Otuyalo was at the premises of the EFCC
in Ibadan, Oyo State, on February 17, 2020, supposedly to visit his son.
It was learnt that while discussing with his son,
an officer noticed that he brought out a sachet of tablets and handed the same to
him.
The officer, therefore, raise the alarm which led to
the confiscation of the drug.
It was gathered that when the in-house nurse was
called upon for assessment of the content, it was revealed that the said item
was Rohypnol, a tranquilizer used under strict prescription for treatment of
severe insomnia and assist in anesthesia.
The drug is said to possess high sedative effect
and is rarely used except when prescribed by licenced medical officers.
The younger Otuyalo was recently arrested after a
criminal case of money laundering detected in the United Kingdom was reported
against him.
The case which involved £45,000 was a fragment of a
wider one involving about £500,000 for which he has been declared wanted by the
London Metropolitan Police.
He has been on the wanted list of the Interpol
before the petition was filed at the EFCC, Ibadan zonal office.
It was further learnt that officers of Interpol in
Nigeria were already in contact with the commission in respect of the said case
before the suspect’s father attempted to smuggle in the hard drug for him.
However, further investigations are ongoing, even as
the commission intends to hand him over to the National Drug Law Enforcement
Agency (NDLEA) for possible prosecution of the suspected narcotic case.
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