Drug law agency declares former beauty queen wanted for allegedly dealing in illicit drugs
A former beauty queen Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture 2015/2016, Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, has been declared wanted by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA for allegedly dealing in illicit drugs.
Penpushing reports that this was made known in a statement by the agency spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, adding that Aderinoye founder of the Queen Christmas Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) escaped from her Lekki, Lagos residence as operatives were closing in on her.
The statement added that National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives raided her apartment at Oral Estate, Lekki on 24 January following credible intelligence that she was dealing in illicit substances.
‘Recovered from her home during the search witnessed by the estate officials were 606gm of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of Indian hemp. Also recovered from her residence was an electronic weighing scale, large quantities of drugs packing plastics, a black RAV 4 SUV and her photographs,’’ he added.
Penpushing further reports that Babafemi in the statement stated that two members of an international drug trafficking syndicate were arrested on January 25, 2024 at Edu Orita in Ogun State, adding that one of the suspects was being prepared to travel through Lagos to Qatar with some hard drugs on the day of arrest.
The spokesperson of the agency explained that at the time of the arrest, 1.8kg of Indian hemp, electronic weighing scale and other illicit substances were found on the suspects, stressing that a 50-year-old man was also arrested on January 24, when 20kg of Indian hemp was found in one of the rooms in his house at Mushin Olosa, Lagos.
Penpushing also reports that Babafemi stated also that the agency recovered 87 compressed blocks of Indian hemp weighing 73kg; 21,346 pills of tramadol and 3,800 tablets of diazepam from another suspect on Jan. 26.
The statement explained that the drugs were recovered when the suspect’s truck was intercepted at Lafiyawo, on Gombe-Bauchi Road, adding that in similar vein a 35-year-old male was nabbed on January 27 in Plateau with 5.355kg of Indian hemp at Layin Zana area of Jos.
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