The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 41-year-old Canadian woman, Adrienne Munju for importing a large consignment of a strong strain of synthetic cannabis called ‘Canadian Loud’.
She was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos during inward clearance of passengers on a KLM flight from Canada at Terminal 1 on October 3, 2024.
During a joint examination of her three bags by the operatives, Adrienne, who was in Nigeria for the first time, was found with 74 parcels of the illicit substance weighing 35.20 kilograms, and stuffed in two of her three bags.
In her confessional statement, Adrienne claimed that she was recruited to traffic the consignment through an online platform for 10,000 Canadian dollars upon successful delivery in Lagos.
The suspect noted that she accepted the offer because she needed the money to pay for her ongoing Master’s degree programme in Canada.
Also, 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.
The opioids were recovered in three containers coming from India, when operatives conducted a 100 percent joint examination of the cargoes, alongside men of the Nigerian Customs and other port stakeholders on October 2 and 3, 2024.
At Tincan seaport in Lagos, about 100 parcels of Canadian Loud weighing 50kg were intercepted on October 3.
The consignment was packed in 20 parcels each in five jumbo bags concealed in a container with four units of imported vehicles that came from Canada.
Though the container had earlier been cleared out of the ESS Libra Bonded Terminal in Ikorodu based on credible intelligence, NDLEA operatives were able to trace it to a warehouse in Ikorodu where the illicit consignments were discovered in one of the imported vehicles, a Toyota Sienna bus.
A suspect, Abubakar Shuaibu Ibrahim has already been taken into custody in connection with the seizure, according to a statement by the spokesperson of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi on Sunday in Abuja.
In Taraba, NDLEA officers had on October 3 intercepted a commercial bus marked JAL 198 YQ coming from Onitsha, Anambra State to Jalingo.
About 80 blocks of cannabis weighing 38kg hidden in bags of garri were recovered in the state.
This is in addition to the recovery of large quantities of opioids such as tramadol, rohypnol, and codeine-based syrup that were concealed in body compartments of the vehicle when it was searched. Two suspects, Pako Thomas and Emmanuel Anyigor were arrested.
Another suspect, Chibuzor Okafor was arrested at Wukari, Taraba on Wednesday, October 2, with 80 blocks of cannabis weighing 38kg hidden in bags of garri.
A suspect identified as Bolanle Ajenifuja was also arrested on Friday, October 4, at Afo– the Media area of Ojo, Lagos.
About 700 litres of skuchies, a mixture of local chapman and a cocktail of illicit drugs were recovered from Ajenifuja, 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 48kg of the already processed psychoactive substance recovered.
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