65 – YEAR – OLD GRANDMOTHER ARRESTED FOR CONCEALING COCAINE IN HERB.

A 65-year-old grandmother, Hassan Abike, attempted to smuggle 1.74kg of cocaine concealed in herbal syrup containers to London has been foiled by the officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. Abike was to board a British Airways flight on Wednesday
when she was arrested at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. She packed the drug in balloons and placed it in 10 plastic containers of herbal syrup. The drug which was found in her bag tested positive to cocaine and weighed 1.74kg.

Two passports bearing her name were found in her possession.. The cocaine found were packed in balloons and prepared into the shape of the plastic bottles.

Why would an elderly woman do such?