NDLEA arrests 41-year-old Canadian woman for ‘importing 74 parcels of illicit drugs into Nigeria’
The suspect was arrested during the inward clearance of passengers on KLM airline flight from Canada at terminal 1 of the Lagos airport on Thursday.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have arrested a 41-year-old Canadian woman Adrienne Munju at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), in Ikeja, Lagos, for importing a large consignment of ‘Canadian Loud’, a strong strain of synthetic cannabis.
Femi Babafemi, the spokesperson of the NDLEA, said in a statement on Sunday, that the suspect was arrested during the inward clearance of passengers on KLM airline flight from Canada at terminal 1 of the Lagos airport on Thursday.
Babafemi said operatives discovered 74 parcels of the illicit substance weighing 35.20kg during a joint examination of her three bags.
Adrienne was coming to Nigeria for the first time, according to the statement.
Babafemi said the suspect claimed she was recruited to traffic the consignment through an online platform for 10,000 Canadian dollars upon successful delivery in Lagos.
The NDLEA spokesperson added that Adrienne said she took the offer to be able to pay for her ongoing master’s degree programme in Canada.
In the same vein, NDLEA operatives at the Port Harcourt port in Onne, Rivers state also 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 N9,017, 771,000 in street value.
Babafemi said the opioids were recovered in three containers coming from India, targeted by the NDLEA during a joint examination of the cargoes with men of the Nigerian Customs and other port stakeholders on Wednesday.
“Similarly, NDLEA operatives at the Tincan seaport in Lagos on Thursday 3rd October intercepted 100 parcels of Canadian Loud weighing 50kg,” the statement reads.
“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 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.”
