A 41-year-old Canadian lady, Adrienne Munju, has been arrested by the Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos for importing large consignment of ‘Canadian Loud’, a strong strain of synthetic cannabis.
Breaking the news this Sunday, NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said the suspect was apprehended on 3 October during the inward clearance of passengers on KLM airline flight from Canada at the terminal 1 of the Lagos airport.
According to the NDLEA Spokesperson, “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 kilograms stuffed in two of her three bags,” he said.
Babafemi pointed out that Adrienne revealed that she was recruited to traffic the consignment through an online platform for 10,000 Canadian dollars upon successful delivery in Lagos, explaining further that she took the offer because she needed the money to pay for her ongoing master’s degree programme in Canada.
Also NDLEA operatives at the Port Harcourt Ports, Onne, Rivers State intercepted 13,298,000 pills of opioids including Tramadol, Tramaking Quick Action Tramadol, Tamol-X, Royal Tapentadol and Carisoprodol as well as 338,253 bottles of codeine based cough syrup, all worth over ₦9,017,771,000 in street value.
According to the statement, the opioids were recovered in three containers coming from India, targeted by the NDLEA during a 100% joint examination of the cargoes with men of the Nigerian Customs and other port stakeholders on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd October 2024.
