Buhari’s wife to receive Zainab Aliyu, freed drug cartel victim

Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, on Monday, received the freed victim of the Saudi Arabia drugs trafficking, Zainab Aliyu.

The Nigerian student, who was held in Saudi Arabia on drug smuggling charges, had recently been reunited with her family.

Aliyu spent four months in prison following the discovery of illegal drugs in a bag tagged in her name on her arrival in Saudi Arabia.

Zainab, who was led by Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa,  was companied by her parents Habib and Maryam Aliyu, and sister, Hajara Aliyu.

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She was accused of entering Saudi Arabia with an illegal dosage of Tramadol, but it has since been discovered she was a victim of a cartel that the airport in Kano that specialises in keeping hard drugs in travellers’ bags.

Some members of the cartel are already in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

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