The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has declared an ex-beauty queen, Aderinoye Queen Christmas, also known as Ms. Queen Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, wanted for allegedly dealing in illicit drugs.

The ex-beauty queen was declared wanted by the NDLEA after she escaped from her residence in the Lekki area of Lagos State when the operatives of the anti-drug agency raided her apartment at Oral Estate on Wednesday, January 24, 2024.

The NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, who made this known via a statement on Sunday, January 28, said Aderinoye’s residence was raided following credible intelligence she deals in illicit substances.

The suspect was Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture 2015/2016 and founder of Queen Christmas Foundation.

Babafemi listed items recovered from the former beauty queen’s home during the search witnessed by the estate officials to include 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.

READ ALSO: NDLEA arrests importer of tramadol at Lagos airport

The NDLEA spokesman added that two members of an international drug trafficking syndicate – Sunday Michael Owoborode, 52, and Valentine Anene – were arrested on Thursday, January 25, at Edu Orita, Ogun State where Valentine was being prepared to travel with some drugs to Qatar same day on board a Qatar airline flight from Lagos.

He stated that 1.8kg cannabis, electronic weighing scale, and other illicit substances were found on the suspects when they were arrested.

Babafemi further disclosed that a 50-year-old man, Sunday Adediran, was arrested by the NDLEA operatives on Wednesday, January 24, with 20kg cannabis sativa found in one of the rooms in his house in the Mushin area of Lagos State.

While commending the anti-narcotic officers for their outstanding feats in the past week, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), equally applauded their counterparts in all the commands across the country for intensifying their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) advocacy lectures thus creating a balance between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction activities.

The Star