Sunday, October 6, 2024 -The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has announced the arrest of a 41-year-old Canadian lady, Adrienne Munju, by its operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos for importing large consignment of ‘Canadian Loud’, a strong strain of synthetic cannabis.
NDLEA stated that the suspect was arrested
during the inward clearance of passengers on KLM airline flight from Canada at
the terminal 1 of the Lagos airport on Thursday 3rd October 2024.
Femi Babafemi, Director, Media &
Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, made to Babafemi said Adrienne, who was
coming to Nigeria for the first time, was found with 74 parcels of the illicit
substance weighing 35.20 kilograms stuffed in two of her three bags during a
joint examination of her three bags.
In her statement, the suspect claimed she
was recruited to traffic the consignment through an online platform for 10,000
Canadian dollars upon successful delivery in Lagos.
Adrienne also explained that she took the
offer because she needed the money to pay for her ongoing master’s degree
programme in Canada.
In the same vein, NDLEA said its operatives
at the Port Harcourt Ports, Onne, Rivers state have intercepted 13,298,000
pills of opioids including Tramadol, Tramaking Quick Action Tramadol, Tamol-X,
Royal Tapentadol and Carisoprodol as well as 338, 253 bottles of codeine based
cough syrup, all worth over N9 billion in street value.
his known in a statement on Sunday.
The anti-narcotic agency announced that the opioids were recovered
in three containers coming from India, targeted by the NDLEA during a 100
percent joint examination of the cargoes with men of the Nigerian Customs and
other port stakeholders on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd October 2024.
Similarly, NDLEA operatives at the Tincan seaport in Lagos on
Thursday 3rd October disclosed they intercepted 100 parcels of Canadian Loud
weighing 50kg.
Similarly, NDLEA operatives at the Tincan seaport in Lagos on
Thursday 3rd October disclosed they intercepted 100 parcels of Canadian Loud
weighing 50kg.
According to the statement, “the consignment was packed in 20
parcels each in five jumbo bags concealed in a container with four units of
imported vehicles that came from Canada.
“Though the container had earlier been
cleared out of the ESS Libra Bonded Terminal in Ikorodu but based on credible
intelligence, NDLEA operatives were able to trace it to a warehouse in Ikorodu
where the illicit consignments were discovered in one of the imported vehicles,
a Toyota Sienna bus. A suspect, Abubakar Shuaibu Ibrahim has already been taken
into custody in connection with the seizure,” Babafemi said.
“In Taraba, NDLEA officers on Thursday 3rd
October intercepted a commercial bus marked JAL 198 YQ coming from Onitsha,
Anambra state to Jalingo. Large quantities of opioids: tramadol, rohypnol and
codeine-based syrup concealed in body compartments of the vehicle were
recovered when it was searched, while two suspects: Pako Thomas and Emmanuel
Anyigor were arrested. Another suspect, Chibuzor Okafor was arrested at Wukari
on Wednesday 2nd October with 80 blocks of cannabis weighing 38kg hidden in
bags of garri.
“In Lagos, a suspect Bolanle Ajenifuja was
on Friday 4th October arrested at Afo – Media area of Ojo where 700 litres of
skuchies, a mixture of local chapman and cocktail of illicit drugs were
recovered from her, while three suspects: Ezekiel Akpele; Elijah Michael; and
Goddard John, were nabbed same day when NDLEA operatives raided two cannabis
farms located at bridge camp, a boundary community between Edo and Ondo states.
Not less than 9,966.332kg of the substance was destroyed on over three hectares
of farmland with 48kg of the already processed psychoactive substance
recovered,” he added.
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