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Lagos couple suspected of using offspring to push drugs A couple who police believe have been using their sons and daughters, aged between eight and 14, to traffic drugs in and around the Lagos area were arrested last week, the GNR police confirmed. Speaking to Lusa News Agency, a GNR source said that the couple, a 53-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman, had been detained for using ‘the majority’ of their 10 sons and daughters (not all have the same mother) to help in their drug-trafficking schemes as it was “easier to avoid arrest”. The children were reportedly used to transport the drugs, which were buried in the ground near the Bensafrim church’s front entrance, leaving the couple free of any of the criminal implications that drug pushing entails. The GNR unearthed and seized all of the drugs hidden near the church. The couple, who are Cape-Verdean, were heard at Lagos’ court this week while all 10 children were placed in temporary care homes and institutions around the region. The GNR unravelled the set-up after investigating the couple for around a year before making the detentions. Searches at the couple’s home were also carried out, where weapons and enough high-purity cocaine to produce more than 1,000 individual doses was discovered. Three vehicles, five mobile phones, around 60 kilos in copper, 500 grams of items in gold, and €600 in cash were further seized in connection with the crime.
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