The Anti-Narcotic Police Unit at Entebbe International Airport is investigating a 29-year-old woman who was found with 90 pellets of heroine stuffed in her private parts over the weekend.
The suspect identified as Carol Birungi was arrested on charges of drug trafficking from Uganda to New Delhi-India in India.
Charles Twine, the Criminal Investigations Directorate-CID spokesperson says Birungi was busted at the Airport following intelligence reports that she was in the business of smuggling drugs from Ethiopia to Uganda through the Eastern border points.
Twine says drug traffickers in Uganda marry Ugandan girls and train into dealing in drugs on their behalf.
“We have had cases where Ugandan girls have been fooled by Nigerian men, who come here pretending to loving them to the extent of even marrying them, and start training them to be part of the illicit trade,” said Twine. Consequently she starts delivering cargoes to India, Sri Lanka or Europe, but when they don’t succeed and get apprehended, you will never see the Nigerian husband again.” Twine explained
Records at the Anti-Narcotics Unit at Criminal Investigations Directorate –CID show that 7,328 people were arrested in the last two years for illegally buying, selling and smuggling the intoxicating drugs.
