Ex-beauty queen declared needed for drug offence surrenders to NDLEA

The Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company has stated a former magnificence queen, Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, has turned herself in at its Lagos command.

The company accused the ex-beauty queen who was the Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Tradition in 2015/2016 of hiding after she was declared needed eight months in the past.

An announcement on Sunday by the company’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, famous that Aderinoye was declared needed after she escaped when operatives raided her condo in Lekki on January 24, 2024.

Babafemi said that 606 grammes of Canadian Loud, an artificial pressure of hashish, an digital weighing scale, giant portions of medication packing plastics, a black RAV 4 SUV marked Lagos KSF 872 GQ, and her image body, amongst others, had been recovered from her condo.

Babafemi stated, “Needed ex-beauty queen, Ms. Aderinoye Queen Christmas, also referred to as Ms. Queen Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, has surrendered to the Lagos Command of the company after about eight months in hiding.

“She was declared needed by the company in January after she escaped from her Lekki, Lagos residence when NDLEA operatives raided her condo on the Oral 3state, Lekki, on Wednesday, January 24, following credible intelligence that she offers in illicit substances.

“The suspect was Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Tradition 2015/2016 and the founding father of Queen Christmas Foundation. Recovered from her dwelling in the course of the search witnessed by the property officers embody 606 gramm3s of Canadian Loud, an artificial pressure of hashish, an digital weighing scale, giant portions of medication packing plastics, a black RAV 4 SUV marked Lagos KSF 872 GQ, and her image body amongst others.

“The suspect, who claimed she had been hiding in Akure, Ondo State since January when she escaped arrest in Lekki Lagos nonetheless, surrendered to the company on Wednesday, August 28.“

Babafemi stated operatives of the company intercepted a complete of 31,124, 600 capsules of tramadol 225mg and bottles of codeine-based syrup value over N17, 932, 200, 000.00 in avenue worth on the Port Harcourt Port Advanced, Onne, Rivers state and Tincan seaport in Lagos.

“The seizures had been made following intelligence processed by the company on the motion of the shipments from their port of origin in India, resulting in a requirement for a 100 per cent joint examination of the watch-listed containers with the Nigerian Customs Service and different sister safety companies, “ he added.

In accordance with him, the breakdown of the seizures confirmed that 350,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup had been recovered from two containers at Tincan port in Lagos on August 29 and 30, 2024.

“Every of the 2 containers had 175,000 bottles of the opioid.
On the Port Harcourt Port Advanced, Onne, NDLEA operatives equally intercepted a complete of 447 cartons of tramadol 225mg containing 29 840,000 capsules of the opioid in addition to 380,000 bottles of codeine syrup from three containers on Thursday, August 29. The tramadol shipments got here below completely different model names akin to Royal Tapetadol, Carisoprodol 225mg and Royal Tramadol Hydrochloride 225mg,” the assertion added.

The next day, Babafemi stated one other set of three containers watch-listed by NDLEA had been subjected to joint examination.

He added that on the finish of the train, a complete of three,030 cartons of codeine syrup containing 554,600 bottles of the opioid had been recovered from them.

“This brings the whole bottles of codeine seized at Onne, Rivers and Tincan in Lagos to 1,284,600 bottles value N8,992,200,000.00 in avenue worth whereas the mixed seizure of tramadol stood at 29, 840,000 capsules valued at N8,940,000,000.00”, he added.

Equally, he famous that NDLEA operatives on the Port Harcourt Worldwide Airport, Rivers State, on August 27 arrested a suspect, Eze Emekan Don, whereas trying to board a Cronos airline flight to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, with 1,490 capsules of tramadol hid and packaged as cosmetics of various manufacturers inside his baggage.

Additionally in Lagos, Babafemi stated at least 1,122 kilograms of hashish had been seized from a suspect, Mustapha Ibrahim when he was arrested on August 26 alongside Orchid Highway, Ajah, Lagos, including, “Whereas 816kg of the identical psychoactive substance belonging to a suspect at giant was recovered from the identical location the identical day.”

In Niger State, he stated NDLEA operatives on August 26 arrested a suspect, Friday Gabriel, alongside Minna-Suleja highway whereas conveying 1,900 capsules of tramadol, 300 bottles of codeine syrup and 600 packets of exol-5 tablets.

“Equally, operatives in Bauchi state on Saturday, thirty first August, arrested two suspects: Garba Muhammed, 35, and Usman Yakubu Shehu, 31, alongside Bauchi-Gombe highway whereas transporting 308 blocks of hashish weighing 246.4kg, hid in a false compartment of a J5 bus marked Edo state URM 38 ZY,” he said.