*Arrests 50-yr Old Man Over 20kg Drug
By; RAYMOND TEDUNJAYE, Lagos.
A former beauty queen has been declared wanted by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for her involvement in illicit drugs business.
Identified as Ms Aderinoye Queen Christmas also known as Ms. Queen Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, the suspect, according to the agency, was Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture 2015/2016 and founder of Queen Christmas Foundation.
Ms. Aderinoye was declared wanted by the agency after she escaped from her Lekki, Lagos residence when NDLEA operatives raided her apartment at Oral estate, Lekki on Wednesday, January 24.
The Director Media and Advocacy of the Agency Femi Babafemi, who made the disclosure in a statement yesterday, said the raid of her apartment followed credible intelligence that she deals in illicit substances.
Babafemi disclosed that 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 were recovered during a search on her residence, witnessed by the estate officials.
In another interdiction operation by operatives in Lagos same day, a 50-year-old Sunday Adediran, was arrested with 20kg cannabis sativa found in one of the rooms in his house at Mushin Olosha.
Also, not less than 822 kilograms of cannabis sativa hidden in a fuel station located at Ashipa community along Badagry-Seme road were recovered by operatives of the Seme Special Area Command of the Agency.
