The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has announced that former beauty queen Oluwadamilola Aderinoye has surrendered to its Lagos command.
The agency accused the
ex-beauty queen who was the Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture in 2015/2016 of
hiding after she was declared wanted eight months ago.
A statement on Sunday by the
agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, noted that Aderinoye was declared wanted
after she escaped when operatives raided her apartment in Lekki on January 24,
2024.
Babafemi stated that 606
grammes of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, an electronic
weighing scale, large quantities of drugs packing plastics, a black RAV 4 SUV
marked Lagos KSF 872 GQ, and her picture frame, among others, were recovered
from her apartment.
Babafemi said, “Wanted
ex-beauty queen, Ms. Aderinoye Queen Christmas, also known as Ms. Queen
Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, has surrendered to the Lagos Command of the agency
after about eight months in hiding.
“She was declared wanted by the
agency in January after she escaped from her Lekki, Lagos residence when NDLEA
operatives raided her apartment at the Oral 3state, Lekki, on Wednesday,
January 24, following credible intelligence that she deals in illicit
substances.
“The suspect was Miss
Commonwealth Nigeria Culture 2015/2016 and the founder of Queen Christmas
Foundation. Recovered from her home during the search witnessed by the estate
officials include 606 gramm3s of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis,
an electronic weighing scale, large quantities of drugs packing plastics, a
black RAV 4 SUV marked Lagos KSF 872 GQ, and her picture frame among others.
“The suspect, who claimed she
had been hiding in Akure, Ondo State since January when she escaped arrest in
Lekki Lagos however, surrendered to the agency on Wednesday, August 28.“
Babafemi said operatives of the
agency intercepted a total of 31,124, 600 pills of tramadol 225mg and bottles
of codeine-based syrup worth over N17, 932, 200, 000.00 in street value at the
Port Harcourt Port Complex, Onne, Rivers state and Tincan seaport in Lagos.
“The seizures were made following intelligence processed by the qgency on the movement of the shipments from their port of origin in India, leading to a demand for a 100 per cent joint examination of the watch-listed containers with the Nigerian Customs Service and other sister security agencies, “ he added.
According to him, the breakdown
of the seizures showed that 350,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup were
recovered from two containers at Tincan port in Lagos on August 29 and 30,
2024.
“Each of the two containers had
175,000 bottles of the opioid.
At the Port Harcourt Port
Complex, Onne, NDLEA operatives equally intercepted a total of 447 cartons of
tramadol 225mg containing 29 840,000 pills of the opioid as well as 380,000
bottles of codeine syrup from three containers on Thursday, August 29. The tramadol
shipments came under different brand names such as Royal Tapetadol,
Carisoprodol 225mg and Royal Tramadol Hydrochloride 225mg,” the statement
added.
The following day, Babafemi
said another set of three containers watch-listed by NDLEA were subjected to
joint examination.
He added that at the end of the
exercise, a total of 3,030 cartons of codeine syrup containing 554,600 bottles
of the opioid were recovered from them.
“This brings the total bottles
of codeine seized at Onne, Rivers and Tincan in Lagos to 1,284,600 bottles
worth N8,992,200,000.00 in street value while the combined seizure of tramadol
stood at 29, 840,000 pills valued at N8,940,000,000.00”, he added.
Similarly, he noted that NDLEA
operatives at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Rivers State, on August
27 arrested a suspect, Eze Emekan Don, while attempting to board a Cronos
airline flight to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, with 1,490 pills of tramadol
concealed and packaged as cosmetics of different brands inside his luggage.
Also in Lagos, Babafemi said no
less than 1,122 kilograms of cannabis were seized from a suspect, Mustapha
Ibrahim when he was arrested on August 26 along Orchid Road, Ajah, Lagos,
adding, “While 816kg of the same psychoactive substance belonging to a suspect
at large was recovered from the same location the same day.”
In Niger State, he said NDLEA
operatives on August 26 arrested a suspect, Friday Gabriel, along Minna-Suleja
road while conveying 1,900 capsules of tramadol, 300 bottles of codeine syrup
and 600 packets of exol-5 tablets.
“Similarly, operatives in
Bauchi state on Saturday, 31st August, arrested two suspects: Garba Muhammed,
35, and Usman Yakubu Shehu, 31, along Bauchi-Gombe road while transporting 308
blocks of cannabis weighing 246.4kg, concealed in a false compartment of a J5
bus marked Edo state URM 38 ZY,” he stated.
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