By Samaila Emmanuel Bzugu
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 41-year-old Canadian lady, Adrienne Munju, on the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos. She was nabbed on Thursday, October 3 for importing a big consignment of ‘Canadian Loud’, a powerful pressure of artificial hashish.
NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, introduced the arrest in a press release on Sunday, saying the suspect was apprehended throughout the inward clearance of passengers on KLM airline flight from Canada on the terminal 1 of the Lagos airport.
“During a joint examination of her three bags, 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,” he stated.
she took the supply as a result of she wanted the cash to pay for her ongoing grasp’s diploma programme in Canada
In her assertion, Adrienne claimed she was recruited to site visitors the consignment via a web based platform for 10,000 Canadian {dollars} upon profitable supply in Lagos. She stated she took the supply as a result of she wanted the cash to pay for her ongoing grasp’s diploma programme in Canada.
In completely different operations, NDLEA operatives on the Port Harcourt Ports, Onne, Rivers State intercepted 13,298,000 capsules of opioids together with Tramadol, Tramaking Quick Action Tramadol, Tamol-X, Royal Tapentadol and Carisoprodol in addition to 338,253 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup, all price over ₦9,017,771,000 in road worth.
The opioids had been recovered in three containers coming from India, focused by the NDLEA throughout a 100% joint examination of the cargoes with males of the Nigerian Customs and different port stakeholders on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday third October 2024.