The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has stated a former magnificence queen, Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, has turned herself in at its Lagos command.
The company accused the ex-beauty queen who was the Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture in 2015/2016 of hiding after she was declared needed eight months in the past.
An announcement on Sunday by the company’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, famous that Aderinoye was declared needed after she escaped when operatives raided her condo in Lekki on January 24, 2024.
Babafemi acknowledged that 606 grammes of Canadian Loud, an artificial pressure of hashish, an digital weighing scale, giant portions of medicine packing plastics, a black RAV 4 SUV marked Lagos KSF 872 GQ, and her image body, amongst others, had been recovered from her condo.
Babafemi stated, “Wanted ex-beauty queen, Ms. Aderinoye Queen Christmas, also referred to as Ms. Queen Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, has surrendered to the Lagos Command of the company after about eight months in hiding.
“She was declared needed by the company in January after she escaped from her Lekki, Lagos residence when NDLEA operatives raided her condo on the Oral 3state, Lekki, on Wednesday, January 24, following credible intelligence that she offers in illicit substances.
“The suspect was Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture 2015/2016 and the founding father of Queen Christmas Foundation. Recovered from her residence in the course of the search witnessed by the property officers embrace 606 gramm3s of Canadian Loud, an artificial pressure of hashish, an digital weighing scale, giant portions of medicine packing plastics, a black RAV 4 SUV marked Lagos KSF 872 GQ, and her image body amongst others.
“The suspect, who claimed she had been hiding in Akure, Ondo State since January when she escaped arrest in Lekki Lagos nonetheless, surrendered to the company on Wednesday, August 28.“
Babafemi stated operatives of the company intercepted a complete of 31,124, 600 capsules of tramadol 225mg and bottles of codeine-based syrup price over N17, 932, 200, 000.00 in road worth on the Port Harcourt Port Complex, Onne, Rivers state and Tincan seaport in Lagos.
“The seizures had been made following intelligence processed by the qgency on the motion of the shipments from their port of origin in India, resulting in a requirement for a 100 per cent joint examination of the watch-listed containers with the Nigerian Customs Service and different sister safety businesses, “ he added.
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According to him, the breakdown of the seizures confirmed that 350,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup had been recovered from two containers at Tincan port in Lagos on August 29 and 30, 2024.
“Each of the two containers had 175,000 bottles of the opioid.
At the Port Harcourt Port Complex, Onne, NDLEA operatives equally intercepted a total of 447 cartons of tramadol 225mg containing 29 840,000 pills of the opioid as well as 380,000 bottles of codeine syrup from three containers on Thursday, August 29. The tramadol shipments came under different brand names such as Royal Tapetadol, Carisoprodol 225mg and Royal Tramadol Hydrochloride 225mg,” the assertion added.
The following day, Babafemi stated one other set of three containers watch-listed by NDLEA had been subjected to joint examination.
He added that on the finish of the train, a complete of three,030 cartons of codeine syrup containing 554,600 bottles of the opioid had been recovered from them.
“This brings the total bottles of codeine seized at Onne, Rivers and Tincan in Lagos to 1,284,600 bottles worth N8,992,200,000.00 in street value while the combined seizure of tramadol stood at 29, 840,000 pills valued at N8,940,000,000.00”, he added.
Similarly, he famous that NDLEA operatives on the Port Harcourt International Airport, Rivers State, on August 27 arrested a suspect, Eze Emekan Don, whereas making an attempt to board a Cronos airline flight to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, with 1,490 capsules of tramadol hid and packaged as cosmetics of various manufacturers inside his baggage.
Also in Lagos, Babafemi stated a minimum of 1,122 kilograms of hashish had been seized from a suspect, Mustapha Ibrahim when he was arrested on August 26 alongside Orchid Road, Ajah, Lagos, including, “While 816kg of the same psychoactive substance belonging to a suspect at large was recovered from the same location the same day.”
In Niger State, he stated NDLEA operatives on August 26 arrested a suspect, Friday Gabriel, alongside Minna-Suleja street whereas conveying 1,900 capsules of tramadol, 300 bottles of codeine syrup and 600 packets of exol-5 tablets.
“Similarly, operatives in Bauchi state on Saturday, 31st August, arrested two suspects: Garba Muhammed, 35, and Usman Yakubu Shehu, 31, along Bauchi-Gombe road while transporting 308 blocks of cannabis weighing 246.4kg, concealed in a false compartment of a J5 bus marked Edo state URM 38 ZY,” he acknowledged.