The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have declared a former Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture 2015/2016 and founder of Queen Christmas Foundation, Ms Aderinoye Queen Christmas wanted.
According to the NDLEA’s spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, Aderinoye escaped from her Lekki, Lagos residence when the NDLEA operatives raided her apartment at the Oral estate, Lekki on January 24.
A statement on the NDLEA website said the ex-beauty queen’s residence was raided following credible intelligence that she was dealing in illicit substances.
Babafemi added that the NDLEA operatives recovered 606 grams of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, an electronic weighing scale, and large quantities of drugs packing plastics from her home during the search witnessed by the estate officials. Other items include a black RAV 4 SUV marked Lagos KSF 872 GQ, and her picture frame, among others.
In another development, a returnee from Brazil has been arrested by the NDLEA for ingesting 60 wraps of cocaine.
The agency arrested the suspect at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on January 21 during an inward clearance of passengers travelling from Sao Paulo, Brazil, through Addis Ababa,
According to Babafemi, who disclosed this yesterday in Abuja, the suspect initially refused to undergo a body scan, raising health concerns in a desperate bid to evade arrest. “The suspect, however, accepted the offer to be placed on excretion observation,” he added.
He continued: “Shortly after he was ushered into NDLEA’s observatory, he excreted the first set of cocaine pellets, after which he expelled a total of 60 wraps of the drug weighing 1.279kg in five excretions.
“In his statement, the suspect claimed that he ingested the consignment in Brazil and was to discharge everything at the airport in Addis Ababa.
“He could only excrete 15 pellets which he handed over to another member of his syndicate before his connecting flight to Nigeria was called.’’
Babafemi also said another 29-year-old male suspect was arrested at Gadar Tamburawa area of Kano State on January 25 with 271kg of Indian hemp, following the seizure of an abandoned 28.1kg of Indian hemp at Rijiyar Lemo area of the state on January 24.
“Another suspect, a 24-year-old, was nabbed at Kotun Wambai, Yan Awaki, area of Kano on January 26 with 600 bottles of codeine-based syrup.
“A total of 1, 306 blocks of cannabis weighing 886kg seized by the Police at Kwanar Dangora, area of Kano State were transferred to the Agency on January 24,’’ Babafemi said.
