NDLEA arrests Canadian woman for importing ‘Canadian Loud’ into Nigeria

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a Canadian lady, Adrienne Munju, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, for importing a large consignment of ‘Canadian Loud’ into Nigeria.

Spokesman of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, said the 41-year-old Munju, was arrested during the inward clearance of passengers on a KLM airline flight from Canada at Terminal 1 of the Lagos airport on October 3.

Babafemi stated that during a joint examination of her three bags, Munju who was visiting 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 claimed she was 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,” the statement said.

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He added that in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, operatives of the agency smashed a drug syndicate operating at the Onne Port and recovered 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 N9.18 million.

“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.

“Similarly, at the Tincan seaport in Lagos, 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.

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