A large consignment of a potent synthetic cannabis type called ‘Canadian Loud’ was recently intercepted at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, leading to the arrest of 41-year-old Canadian citizen Adrienne Munju.
This was the first visit of Munju to Nigeria, who was apprehended while clearing in as a passenger on a KLM Airline flight from Canada on October 3, 2024.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, confirmed that Adrienne was nabbed during a combined examination of her three pieces of luggage. 74 packs of the unlawful substance weighing 35.20 kilograms were discovered concealed in two of these bags.
Munju claimed to have accepted CAD 10,000 to traffic the drug via an internet platform, intending to use the funds for her ongoing Master’s degree program in Canada.
Further drug seizures happened over the same period. At the Tin Can Seaport in Lagos, 100 packs of Canadian Loud weighing 50 kilos were seized on October 3. The consignment was hidden in a container with imported vehicles from Canada.
Moreover, the NDLEA officers confiscated 13,298,000 opioid pills, including Tramadol, Tramaking Quick Action Tramadol, Tamol-X, Royal Tapentadol, Carisoprodol, and 338, 253 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup with a value of over N9,017, 771,000 at the Port Harcourt Ports Onne, Rivers State.
The seizures were in three containers from India, specifically targeted by the NDLEA during a thorough joint inspection with the Nigerian Customs Service and other port partners on October 2 and 3, 2024.
Elsewhere, in Taraba State, an onboard commercial bus traveling from Onitsha, Anambra State, to Jalingo was stopped on October 3. The officers discovered 80 blocks of cannabis weighing 38 kilos hidden in bags of garri. Large quantities of opioids concealed in the vehicle were also found, and two suspects were arrested.
Further operations by the NDLEA on the same day led to the raiding of two cannabis farms at the Bridge Camp, a boundary community between Edo and Ondo states. 9,966.332 kg of the substance was destroyed on over three hectares of farmland, with 48 kg of the already processed psychoactive substance recovered.
