A 41-year-old Canadian girl, Adrienne Munju, has been arrested by the Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) at Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport, Lagos, for smuggling 35.20 kilograms of artificial hashish.
Munju was apprehended on October 3, 2024, in the course of the inward clearance of passengers arriving on a KLM flight from Canada. The illicit substance, hid in two of her three baggage, was packed in 74 parcels.
The arrest was detailed in a press release by NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi, and revealed on the agnecy’s web site on Sunday.
“A 41-year-old Canadian woman Adrienne Munju has been arrested by operatives of the Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company, NDLEA, on the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos for importing giant consignment of ‘Canadian Loud’, a robust pressure of artificial hashish,” the assertion learn partly.
It added, “Throughout a joint examination of her three baggage, Adrienne who was coming to Nigeria for the primary time was discovered with 74 parcels of the illicit substance weighing 35.20 kilograms stuffed in two of her three baggage.”
The assertion additional revealed that the lady confessed that she was recruited on-line and promised CAD 10,000 for efficiently trafficking the consignment to Lagos, which she supposed to make use of for her grasp’s diploma tuition.
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The assertion additional famous that NDLEA operatives on the Port Harcourt Ports, Onne, Rivers State, intercepted 13,298,000 opioid capsules, together with Tramadol, Tramaking Fast Motion Tramadol, Tamol-X, Royal Tapentadol, and Carisoprodol, together with 338,253 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup, value over N9.01 billion.
The substances had been recovered from three containers arriving from India throughout a joint examination with Nigerian Customs and port stakeholders on October 2nd and third, 2024.
Equally, on October third, NDLEA operatives on the Tincan seaport in Lagos intercepted 100 parcels of Canadian Loud weighing 50kg. Hid in a container with imported autos from Canada, the medication had been traced to a warehouse in Ikorodu.
In Taraba, NDLEA officers intercepted a industrial bus from Onitsha to Jalingo on October third, recovering opioids like tramadol, rohypnol, and codeine-based syrup hidden within the automobile.
Two suspects, Pako Thomas and Emmanuel Anyigor, had been arrested, whereas one other suspect, Chibuzor Okafor, was apprehended on October 2nd in Wukari with 38kg of hashish hid in garri baggage.
In Lagos, Bolanle Ajenifuja was arrested on October 4th with 700 liters of skuchies, a cocktail of illicit medication, whereas three suspects, Ezekiel Akpele, Elijah Michael, and Goddard John, had been arrested for working hashish farms in a boundary neighborhood between Edo and Ondo States. Roughly 9,966 kg of hashish was destroyed throughout three hectares.
