OPERATIVES of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Ikeja, Lagos State, have arrested a 41-year-old Canadian lady, Adrienne Munju, for importing large consignment of ‘Canadian Loud,’ a strong strain of synthetic cannabis, into the country.
The suspect was arrested during the inward clearance of passengers on KLM Airline flight from Canada at the Terminal 1 of the airport on Thursday, October 3.
According to a statement by the Agency’s spokesman, Mr. Femi Babafemi, 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 kilogrammes, stuffed in two of the three bags.
He said the suspect, in her statement, claimed she was recruited to traffic the consignment through an online platform for 10,000 Canadian dollars upon successful delivery in Lagos and that she took the offer because she needed the money to pay for her ongoing Master’s degree programme in Canada.
In the same vein, NDLEA operatives at the Port Harcourt Ports in Onne, Rivers State, intercepted 13,298,000 pills of opioids, including Tramadol, Tramaking Quick Action Tramadol, Tamol-X, Royal Tapentadol and Carisoprodol and 338, 253 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup, all worth over N9,017, 771,000 in street value.
The opioids were recovered in three containers coming from India targeted by the NDLEA during a 100 per cent joint examination of the cargoes with men of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) and other port stakeholders on Wednesday and Thursday, October 2 and 3, respectively.
