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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 41-year-old Canadian woman, Adrienne Munju, at Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos. She was apprehended for importing a large consignment of ‘Canadian Loud’, a strong strain of synthetic cannabis.
The spokesperson for the anti-drug agency, Femi Babafemi, said in a statement yesterday that the suspect was arrested on Thursday, October 3, during the inward clearance of passengers on a KLM airline flight from Canada at Terminal 1 of the Lagos airport.
He stressed that during a joint examination of her three bags, Munju, who was coming to Nigeria for the first time, was found with 74 parcels of the illicit substance weighing 35.20kg stuffed in two of her three bags. She claimed she was recruited to traffic the consignment through an online platform for 10,000 Canadian dollars upon successful delivery in Lagos.
