NDLEA arrests Canadian at Lagos airport, intercepts ₦9bn in opioids.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) apprehended Adrienne Munju, a 41-year-old Canadian woman, at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja in Lagos.
On Thursday, October 3, she was detained for smuggling a big quantity of ‘Canadian Loud’, a strong synthetic cannabis strain.
The NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, reported the arrest in a statement on Sunday, stating that the suspect was detained during the inbound clearance of passengers on a KLM airline flight from Canada at Lagos airport’s terminal 1.
“We found 74 parcels of the illicit substance weighing 35.20 kilogrammes stuffed in two of Adrienne’s three bags during a joint examination of her three bags,” according to him.
In her testimony, she said that an internet platform approached her to traffic the package, promising $10,000 Canadian dollars upon successful delivery in Lagos. She stated that she accepted the offer since she needed the money to pay for her current master’s degree program in Canada.
NDLEA agents seized 13,298,000 opioid pills, including Tramadol, Tramaking Quick Action Tramadol, Tamol-X, Royal Tapentadol, and Carisoprodol, as well as 338,253 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup, totalling over ₦9,017,771,000 in street value.
During a 100% joint examination of the cargoes with men from Nigerian Customs and other port stakeholders on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd October 2024, the NDLEA recovered opioids from three containers arriving from India.