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Nigerian Lady Gets Arrested Abroad For Calling Medication “Drugs”, Shares Her Experience (video)

A lady recently shared a shocking experience on her social media about how a simple misunderstanding got her arrested and detained.

According to her, she went to the pharmacy to buy medication for her husband, who wasn’t feeling well. After purchasing the items, she stepped outside and made a phone call to inform him. She told him, “I got the drugs. I got two drugs for you. When you take them, you’ll feel better.”

Unbeknownst to her, people around overheard the word “drugs” and immediately became suspicious. She didn’t think anything of it until the police arrived.

They stopped her and demanded, “Where are the drugs?”

Confused, she asked, “What drugs?”

The officers insisted, and she showed them what she had bought—a hay fever tablet and pain relief medication. But they didn’t believe her. She tried to explain, saying, “Oh, drugs? I meant this.” The officers responded, “Medication?” and she quickly corrected herself, “Oh yes, I meant medication.”

Unfortunately, her clarification didn’t help. She was taken to the police station, detained, and questioned. In her own words, “They asked me questions, questions.” She called her husband to explain, telling him, “Something happened. I went to get medication, and they said I can’t go home da da da da because of what I said.”

She explained that she had spoken loudly on the phone earlier because she was excited to have found the medication, as there were very few places to buy it. But the police weren’t satisfied. Before releasing her, they conducted a midnight search of her house.

After finally being let go, she was on her way home when she received a video from her husband showing the mess the police had left behind. She lamented, “Guys, I swear, this Nigerian English is just putting me into trouble because the fact that I called medication ‘drugs’ was the problem, and I didn’t know.”

She went on to say, “It’s not the first time I’ve said English wrongly, which I feel that’s what we say in Nigeria. So why should I be bothered? But this one got me in a big mess.”

She concluded by warning others, “Let’s be careful with this Nigerian English before it takes us to prison!”

Her experience is a reminder that language differences can sometimes lead to unexpected trouble. What is normal in one country may have a completely different meaning elsewhere.