An attempt by a mother of two to smuggle a phone to her boyfriend, who is in prison custody has been foiled by officials of the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital.
The 33-year-old woman, Fatima Balogun, was arrested by men of the Special Intelligence Unit of the NPS for allegedly carrying out the criminal action on Wednesday at the gate lodge of Abeokuta Maximum Prisons in Ibara.
She confessed that she tried to hide the phone, which she bought for her boyfriend identified as Ganiyu Ajibode, from the prisons officials in the cooler of soup.
Balogun said she was a divorcee with two children before she met Ganiyu about two years back.
The suspect, who said she lives in Fagba, Iju-Saga in Lagos, said she has never visited the prison since her boyfriend was remanded for armed robbery six months ago.
When asked whether her boyfriend asked her to bring the phone for him in the prison or not, Balogun who looked pale said she was not, but that she felt she would be able to talk to him through the phone instead of coming to the prisons.
The Controller of Prisons, Ogun State Command, CP Benson Abolade, said the suspect was arrested for trafficking in Prison, which he said was against the prisons operation and that the command has contacted the police for prosecution, saying, “it was aimed at serving as deterrent to others.”
