The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has said a former beauty queen, Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, NDLEAhas turned herself in at its Lagos command. The agency accused the ex-beauty queen who was the Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture in 2015/2016 of hiding after she was declared wanted eight months ago.
A wanted ex-beauty queen, Aderinoye Queen Christmas, has surrendered to the Lagos State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency after about eight months in hiding.
The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, announced this in a statement on Sunday.
He said the suspect, born as Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, was declared wanted by the agency in January after she escaped from her Lekki, Lagos State residence.
The NDLEA had recovered 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, and her picture frame, among others, from her apartment.
Aderinoye claimed she had been hiding in Akure, Ondo State, since January when she escaped arrest in Lekki, Lagos.
In a related development, the NDLEA has intercepted a total of 31,124,600 pills of tramadol 225mg and bottles of codeine-based syrup worth over N17,932,200,000 in street value at the Port Harcourt Port Complex, Onne, Rivers State, and Tincan Seaport in Lagos.
Author: Dr Funmi Beckley
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Abeokuta, Nigeria
