A Canadian woman, Adrienne Munju, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, over the alleged importation of a large consignment of a potent strain of synthetic cannabis called ‘Canadian Loud’.
The 41-year-old suspect was nabbed during the inward clearance of passengers on a KLM airline flight from Canada at Terminal 1 of the Lagos airport on October 3, 2024.
A statement released on Sunday by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said that during a joint examination of her three bags, Adrienne, who was in 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.
“In her statement, she confessed to having been recruited to traffic the consignment through an online platform for 10,000 Canadian dollars upon successful delivery in Lagos. She said she took the offer because she needed the money to pay for her ongoing master’s degree programme in Canada,” Babafemi disclosed.
NDLEA Spokesman also said that 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 worth over N9,017,771,000, were recovered at the Port Harcourt Ports Onne, Rivers State.
He added, “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 October 2 and 3, 2024.”
He noted that a suspect, Bolanle Ajenifuja, was arrested on Friday, October 4, at Afo – the Media area of Ojo, Lagos.
Babafemi said that 700 litres of scrunchies, a mixture of local Chapman and a cocktail of illicit drugs, were recovered from her, while three suspects, Ezekiel Akpele, Elijah Michael, and Goddard John, were nabbed.
“On the same day, NDLEA operatives raided two cannabis farms located at Bridge Camp, a boundary community between Edo and Ondo states.
Not less than 9,966.332kg of the substance was destroyed on over three hectares of farmland, with 48 kilograms of the already processed psychoactive substance recovered,” the statement added.
