NDLEA recovers tramadol consignment in cosmetics packs in Rivers

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has recovered now fewer than 1,490 pills of tramadol at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Rivers.

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The NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.

Babafemi said that the NDLEA arrested a suspect on Tuesday, Aug. 27 while attempting to board a Cronos airline flight to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea with the tramadol pills.

He said that the drugs were concealed and packaged as cosmetics of different brands inside his luggage.

“His attempt to compromise the officers to evade arrest was rebuffed, “he said.

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Meanwhile, the NDLEA said a wanted former beauty queen, surrendered to the Lagos Command of the agency after about eight months in hiding.

Babafemi said that the suspect was declared wanted by the agency in January after she escaped from her Lekki, Lagos residence.

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This, he said was when NDLEA operatives raided her apartment at Oral estate, Lekki on Wednesday, Jan. 24 following credible intelligence she deals in illicit substances.

Babafemi said that the suspect was Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture 2015/2016 and the founder of Queen Christmas Foundation.

“Operatives recovered 606g of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis from her home.

“Other things recovered were 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.

“The suspect who claimed she has been hiding in Akure Ondo state since January when she escaped arrest in Lekki Lagos, however, surrendered to the agency on Wednesday.”