NDLEA enforce Tinubu’s hard drug clamp down directive, arrests Canadian woman, others
In line with a directive from the Presidency to clamp down on hard drug trafficking and consumption, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 41-year-old Canadian woman, Adrienne Munju at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos during a routine inspection.
Adrienne was reportedly carrying a large consignment of a highly potent strain of synthetic cannabis called ‘Canadian Loud’ as at the time she was apprehended.
Femi Babafemi, the agency’s spokesperson in a statement on Friday said that while searching her bags parcels of the illicit substance weighing 35.20 kilograms, stuffed in two of her three bags were discovered.
It was also discovered that it was her first time in Nigeria. Upon further quizzing, she confessed that she was recruited online to deliver the drugs to Lagos for $10,000 CAD, which she planned to use for her master’s degree tuition in Canada.
In related operations, Babafemi also said that 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 worth over N9,017,771,000, were recovered at the Port Harcourt Ports Onne, Rivers State.
Similarly, at the Tincan seaport in Lagos, Babafemi said that 100 parcels of Canadian Loud weighing 50kg were intercepted on October 3.
He added that 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.
He said, “Though the container had earlier been cleared out of the ESS Libra Bonded Terminal in Ikorodu 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”.
In Taraba, he said that NDLEA officers on October 3 intercepted a commercial bus marked JAL 198 YQ coming from Onitsha, Anambra State, to Jalingo.
He added that 80 blocks of cannabis weighing 38kg hidden in bags of garri were also recovered in the state.
