The National Drug
Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has declared an ex-beauty queen, Ms. Aderinoye
Queen Christmas, also known as Ms. Queen Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, wanted after
she fled her Lekki, Lagos residence. NDLEA operatives raided her apartment at Oral
Estate, Lekki, on Wednesday, 24th January, following credible intelligence that
she was involved in illicit substances.
NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi said, “The suspect
was Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture 2015/2016 and founder of the Queen
Christmas Foundation. Recovered from her home during the search, witnessed by
estate officials, were 606 grams of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of
cannabis, an electronic weighing scale, large quantities of drug packing
plastics, a black RAV 4 SUV marked Lagos KSF 872 GQ, and her picture frame,
among others.”
The NDLEA also arrested a Brazil returnee, Udechukwu
Ekene Theophilus, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja,
Lagos, for ingesting 60 large wraps of cocaine. The suspect, arrested during
the inward clearance of passengers on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Sao
Paulo, Brazil, via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the D-Arrival Hall of the Lagos
airport on Sunday, 21st January 2024, initially refused to undergo a body scan,
raising health concerns in a desperate bid to evade arrest.
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Babafemi stated, “When he was offered other options, he accepted to be placed on excretion observation. Shortly after he was ushered into the NDLEA observatory, he excreted the first set of cocaine pellets, after which he expelled a total of 60 wraps of the class A drug weighing 1.279 kilograms in five excretions. In his statement, Udechukwu claimed he ingested the consignment in Brazil and was to discharge everything at the airport in Addis Ababa but could only excrete 15 pellets, which he handed over to another member of his syndicate before his connecting flight to Nigeria was called.”
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In the same vein, NDLEA operatives at the Lagos
airport on Tuesday, 23rd January, recovered a total of 12 cartons of tramadol
225mg containing 599,900 pills weighing 385.40kg from an overstayed cargo at
the SAHCO import shed of the Lagos airport after a joint examination with other
agencies. The tramadol consignment had arrived in the country in two batches on
KLM Royal Dutch Airline flights from Karachi, Pakistan, between 27th July and
1st August 2023. They were placed under watch by NDLEA operatives since then.
Additionally, two members of an international drug
trafficking syndicate, Sunday Michael Owoborode, 52, and Valentine Anene, were
arrested on Thursday, 25th January, at Edu Orita, Ogun State, where Valentine
was preparing to travel with some drugs to Qatar the same day on board a Qatar
airline flight from Lagos. “At the time of their arrest, 1.8kg cannabis, an
electronic weighing scale, and other illicit substances were found on them,”
Babafemi stated.
