What could be
regarded as the most intrigue drug allegation and investigation in Nigeria, the
NDLEAD boss opens up again about the drug issue relating to the movie icon Baba
Suwe and reaffirms the allegation as being true.
Hamza Umar, who is
the commander of NDLEA at Murtala Mohammed Airport, stated that the agency
machine being used for detecting drug is 99.9 percent accurate and had never
missed the real culprit.
In an interview
with Sunday Trust, Umar said that before the arrest of Baba Suwe, he did not
know who Baba Suwe is and the binding factor with him is the machine.
“He was travelling
with a group of friends and the machine picked him and said he had drugs
concealed in him. When the matter was becoming controversial, I asked if there
is a good screening centre here in Lagos.
“I was told of the
University of Lagos teaching hospital and I asked that they should take him
there. I did so to have an independent opinion from a professional. He was taken
there and the Chief Radiologist said look, I have to get my Consultant. He and
the Consultant examined, tested and screened him with their machines and gave
me the report in writing.
“Our medical team
collected the written report and brought to me. The hospital said in the report
that Baba-Suwe had drugs concealed in his stomach. In the report, they said
they analyzed him from the head, to the body and down to the legs and concluded
that his stomach is invested with particles that are consistent with narcotics.
“But they said in
the report that they cannot specify the drugs by name. They suggested that it
could only be specified by laboratories. Mind you, I am not an expert in that
field. I am only an officer of the NDLEA.
“If you were in my
shoes will you release that man? I did not stop at that anyway, I insisted I
wanted another report from another group of experts. I was told that there was
another well-equipped place that they call Me-Cure here in Lagos. I said take
him there also. I referred him there and they gave me the same result,” the
NDLEA boss concluded.
The anti-drug
agency has been ordered by the court to pay the sum of 25 million naira to Baba
for violation of his rights. This order is being appealed at the Appeal Court.
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