The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has declared an ex-beauty queen, Ms. Aderinoye Queen Christmas also known as Ms. Queen Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, wanted.
The ex-beauty queen escaped from her Lekki, Lagos residence when NDLEA operatives raided her apartment at Oral Estate, Lekki, on Wednesday, January 24, 2024 following credible intelligence she deals in illicit substances.
The suspect was Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture 2015/2016 and founder of Queen Christmas Foundation.
Recovered from her home during the search witnessed by the estate officials include 606 grams 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.
Two members of an international drug trafficking syndicate: Sunday Michael Owoborode, 52, and Valentine Anene were arrested the next day, Thursday, January 25, at Edu Orita, Ogun State where Valentine was being prepared to travel with some drugs to Qatar same day on board a Qatar airline flight from Lagos.
At the time of their arrest, 1.8kg cannabis, electronic weighing scale and other illicit substances were found on them.
In another interdiction operation by operatives in Lagos, a 50-year-old Sunday Adediran, was arrested on Wednesday, January 24, with 20kg cannabis sativa found in one of the rooms in his house at Mushin Olosha, Lagos.
With the same vigour, the various commands of the agency across the country continued with the War Against Drug Abuse, WADA, advocacy campaign in the past week.
Some of them include: WADA sensitisation lecture for students of Government Day Primary and Secondary School, Jiddel Michika, Adamawa state; students of Soltab Comprehensive College, Abeokuta, Ogun state; pupils and teachers of Sangotedo Primary School, Ajah, Lagos State; pupils and teachers of ADS Basic Primary School 1&2, Ogbomoso, Oyo State; students and teachers of Farfanu Malami community secondary school, Magama Jibia, Katsina State; and WADA advocacy visit to Dr. Gibson Nwabueze Nwosu, Eze Uzu II of Awka, Anambra State, among others.
While commending the officers and men of the MMIA, Lagos, Seme, Kano, Gombe, Kogi, Plateau and Jigawa commands of the agency for their outstanding feats in the past week, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) equally applauded their counterparts in all the commands across the country for intensifying their WADA advocacy lectures thus creating a balance between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction activities.
