A Canadian lady, Adrienne Munju, 41, has been arrested in Lagos, for the possession of 74 parcels of the illicit substance weighing 35.20 kilograms.
A weekly update by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Sunday, revealed that Munju stuffed the illicit drugs in two of her three bags.
The first-time traveller to Nigeria was arrested on Thursday, during the inward clearance of passengers on a KLM airline flight from Canada at terminal 1 of the Lagos International Airport.
“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 Agency said.
Also, NDLEA operatives at the Port Harcourt Ports, Onne in Rivers State, intercepted N13,298,000 pills of opioids contained in three containers in India on Wednesday and Thursday last week.
A breakdown of the consignment includes Tramadol, Tramaking Quick Action Tramadol, Tamol-X, Royal Tapentadol, Carisoprodol 338, and 253 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup.
According to the agency, the total substance intercepted by a joint operation of its officers and Customs personnel was estimated to be over N9b.
Similarly, NDLEA operatives at the Tincan seaport in Lagos on October 3, intercepted 100 parcels of Canadian Loud weighing 50kg.
The consignment, according to the agency, 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,” the NDLEA added.