AN ex-beauty queen, Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, has surrendered to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), eight months after being declared wanted.
This was made known in a statement on Sunday, September 1, by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi.
According to Babafemi, some items including, 606 grammes of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, an electronic weighing scale, large quantities of drugs packing plastics, a black RAV 4 SUV marked Lagos KSF 872 GQ, and her picture frame, among others, were recovered from her apartment.
The ICIR reported in January that the NDLEA declared Aderinoye wanted after she fled her residence in Lagos during a raid.
The NDLEA operatives had raided her apartment at Oral Estate, Lekki, on Wednesday, January 24, following credible intelligence that she deals in illicit substances.
Babafemi in the statement said “Wanted ex-beauty queen, Ms. Aderinoye Queen Christmas, also known as Ms. Queen Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, has surrendered to the Lagos Command of the agency after about eight months in hiding.
“She was declared wanted by the agency in January after she escaped from her Lekki, Lagos residence when NDLEA operatives raided her apartment at the Oral Estate, Lekki, on Wednesday, January 24, following credible intelligence that she deals in illicit substances…
“The suspect, who claimed she had been hiding in Akure, Ondo State, since January when she escaped arrest in Lekki, Lagos, however, surrendered to the agency on Wednesday, August 28.”
The spokesperson added that the agency intercepted hard drugs worth over N17 billion naira in Port Harcourt and Lagos.
The drug comprises 31,124, 600 pills of tramadol 225mg and bottles of codeine-based syrup intercepted in street value at the Port Harcourt Port Complex, Onne, Rivers state and Tincan seaport in Lagos.
The agency also arrested a suspect, Friday Gabriel along Minna-Suleja road in Niger State while he was allegedly moving 1,900 capsules of tramadol, 300 bottles of codeine syrup and 600 packets of exol-5 tablets on August 26.
In Bauchi State, the operatives on Saturday, August 31, arrested two suspects – Garba Muhammed, 35, and Usman Yakubu Shehu, 31 – along Bauchi-Gombe Road while allegedly transporting 308 blocks of cannabis weighing 246.4kg, concealed in a false compartment of a J5 bus marked Edo state URM 38 ZY.