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A woman has been arrested for smuggling a phone to her boyfriend in a prison in Abeokuta.
Fatima Balogun, 33, hid the phone wrapped in a cellophane inside a cooler of soup she brought for her lover who was in prison. The phone was wrapped in a cellophane bag.
The mother of two was arrested by officers attached to Special Intelligence Unit of the NPS.
The divorcee claimed she lived in Fagba, Iju-Saga area of Lagos and that she met her boyfriend Ganiyu Ajibode who has remanded for armed robbery six months ago, two years ago.
Speaking on the incident, Controller of Prisons, Ogun State command, CP Benson Abolade, said that Fatima’s move was against the Prison operation and the action was a threat to national security.