A 41-year-old Canadian lady, Adrienne Munju has been arrested at the Muritala Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos for importing large consignment of ‘Canadian Loud’, a strong strain of synthetic cannabis.
The arrest was made by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Thursday, October 3, 2024 according to a statement by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi on Sunday.
Babafemi said the suspect was arrested during the inward clearance of passengers on KLM airline flight from Canada at the terminal 1 of the airport
During a joint examination of her three bags, Adrienne who was coming to 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.
In a related operation, NDLEA officers at the Tincan seaport in Lagos intercepted an even larger consignment of Canadian Loud the same day.
Concealed inside a container loaded with four imported vehicles from Canada, officers uncovered 100 parcels of the synthetic drug weighing 50 kilogrammes.
The drugs had been hidden in five jumbo bags, strategically stashed inside a Toyota Sienna bus. Although the container had already been cleared from the ESS Libra Bonded Terminal in Ikorodu, sharp intelligence led operatives to trace it to a warehouse, where the illegal haul was found.
One suspect, Abubakar Shuaibu Ibrahim, has been arrested in connection with the seaport seizure, as NDLEA intensifies its crackdown on the rising influx of synthetic drugs into the country.
