The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has declared Ms. Aderinoye Queen Christmas, an ex-beauty queen and founder of the Queen Christmas Foundation, wanted over her alleged involvement in illicit substance deals.
News About Nigeria gathered that the declaration followed a raid on her residence in Lekki, Lagos, where she managed to escape after NDLEA operatives received credible intelligence regarding her illicit activities.
Ms. Aderinoye was crowned Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture 2015/2016.
The raid on her Lekki apartment, located at Oral Estate, led to the discovery of 606 grammes of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, an electronic weighing scale, large quantities of drug packaging plastics, a black RAV 4 SUV with licence plate Lagos KSF 872 GQ, and a picture frame of the suspect.
NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said that the operation also led to the arrest of Udechukwu Ekene Theophilus, a Brazil returnee, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.
Udechukwu was arrested for ingesting 60 wraps of cocaine, weighing 1.279 kilogrammes, which he had smuggled into the country.
According to Babafemi, Udechukwu initially resisted body scanning, citing health concerns to evade arrest.
However, upon opting for excretion observation, he successfully expelled the concealed cocaine pellets.
In his statement, Udechukwu claimed to have ingested the consignment in Brazil, intending to discharge it at the airport in Addis Ababa.
However, he could only excrete 15 pellets, which he handed over to another syndicate member before boarding his connecting flight to Nigeria.
Furthermore, NDLEA operatives at the Lagos airport recovered twelve cartons of tramadol 225mg, containing 599,900 pills and weighing 385.40kg, from overstayed cargo at the SAHCO import shed.
The tramadol consignment arrived in two batches on KLM Royal Dutch Airline flights from Karachi, Pakistan, between July 27 and August 1, 2023.
