I watched a documentary about drug traffickers in the United States of America on Netflix last night and I wish to share some of my thoughts with Facebook friends.
Fighting drug traffickers anywhere in this world is like fighting terrorists and the endgame is always brutal.
Scene 1 : A 38 year old Colombian man was arrested with about 5 kilogrammes of cocaine at JFK airport in America.
He was even travelling with his 4-year-old daughter.
Sniffer dogs exposed him as a drug mule. He was taken aside and properly searched then sent for X-ray checks.
During all this encounter, his 4-year-old daughter was traumatised and weeping. Why must this man expose his daughter to this type of public embarrassment? I don’t know why.
To cut the long story short, while inside the police interview room, he blamed poverty for engaging in drug trafficking and claimed gang members in Colombia forced him to carry the drugs to America, if not they would kill his wife and mother.
He broke down in tears like a deranged coward, saying that was his first time of trafficking in hard drugs.
Within minutes, the Colombian guy was handcuffed and his crying 4-year-old daughter was separated from him.It was an emotional separation. He was allowed to hug and kiss the little girl for the last time. The American police officers and drug enforcement officers told him to be ready for more than 10 years behind bars.
Scene 2 : Another 28-year-old Spanish pregnant woman swallowed more than 20 wraps of cocaine, not even minding the safety of the baby in her belly.
She claimed nobody sent her on this business trip, claiming she acted alone.
“You’re not telling the truth. How cheap to buy cocaine on the street of Bogota? You told my colleague that you’re a jobless single mother some minutes ago.”, DEA officer challenged her.
At end of the day, this pregnant lady was taken to the hospital and she excreted 16 wraps of cocaine, carefully wrapped in condoms! The doctor said if she cannot excrete the remaining 4 wraps within 24 hours, he was going to surgically open her belly to remove the drugs, for the sake of the baby in her womb. As simple as ABC.
This lady later asked for the toilet and she excreted the remaining 4 wraps. She also blamed poverty.
“I don’t want my children to suffer, that was why I took this risk.It is so unfortunate that it came to this sorry state.”, She wept and wept as the two policewomen handcuffed her.
Scene 3 : One young African-American guy in his early 30s was arrested at Miami airport with 10 kilograms of cocaine concealed inside ropes and inside his perfume containers.
As usual, he refused to cooperate with the officers, just blowing American accent up and down.He was quickly handcuffed and to be charged to court for drug trafficking and felony.
Scene 4 : DEA officers intercepted phone calls of some drug barons and their mules(traffickers).They quickly disguised as buyers just to trap one of them. The sting operation worked at last. Two DEA officers travelled from Brazil to New York with the drug traffickers and as the plane landed at JFK, they changed their seats and instantly approached the drug mule…
“You’re under arrest. Don’t say anything. Just remain seated”
The guy was caught pants down! He was wondering who leaked the secrets of his business to the DEA officers.
Many of us in foreign lands have been in difficult financial situations but we refused to engage in criminal activities to make money because good name matters in life.
People who always blame poverty for engaging in drug trafficking business are not telling the whole truth. They should tell that old gibberish story to mermaids and sickos! They just want to live large and to appear as rich personalities in the society. That’s the bitter truth.
A friend once told me that his father’s cousin was hanged in Saudi Arabia about 12 years ago for drug trafficking.
That’s life.
Death penalty is the judgment for drug dealers and traffickers in many middle east and far east Asian countries.
General Muhammadu Buhari also executed some drug traffickers in Nigeria in the 1980s.(Check Google for details).
Many so-called celebrities or ‘rich’ people in Nigeria and elsewhere have made(and still making!) massive fortunes through this illicit business many years ago. That’s an open secret. I won’t shake any table today but don’t ask me to mention names!
If you work so hard day and night to earn your money in a clean way, nothing to fear. That’s just my personal opinion. Anybody is free to call you disgusting names during your struggles. (Na dem get dem mouth jare!)
If you don’t know the original source of your friend’s wealth, you’re likely to run a marathon for the rest of your life.
As the Yoruba adage says :”Isale oro legbin.”, meaning, “behind every massive wealth, there must be one hidden crime.”
My late sweet mother quoted this adage many times when speaking to me on phone from Abeokuta, SW Nigeria.
On a personal note, I have been called many names by some ‘bad belle’ people but impossible to tag me as a criminal in a foreign land. I say it loud and proud anywhere I go. YES!
I hate to display a fake lifestyle. I don’t pose around like a rich man in a foreign land. My close friends would tell you. I am just myself, no make-up except my ‘supersonic’ creative writing skills plus Karamo. When there is life, there is hope. Never to give up to achieve your goals in life.End of story! *IBAJE ENIYAN…
