A former beauty queen, Ms. Aderinoye Queen Christmas better known as Ms. Queen Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, wanted for alleged drug related offences, has surrendered to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Lagos Command of the Agency after about eight months in hiding.
The suspect was declared wanted by the Agency in January after she escaped from her Lekki, Lagos residence when NDLEA operatives raided her apartment at Oral estate, Lekki on Wednesday 24th January following credible intelligence she deals in illicit substances.
Aderinoye, was Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture 2015/2016 and founder of Queen Christmas Foundation. Recovered from her home during the search witnessed by the estate officials, include 606 grams of Canadian Loud.
The substance is 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.
A statement by the NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi who confirmed this on Sunday in a statement, said the Oluwadamilola, voluntarily turned herself into NDLEA Command.
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 28th August.
Operatives of NDLEA also intercepted a total of Thirty-One Million One Hundred and Twenty-Four Thousand Six Hundred (31, 124, 600) pills of tramadol 225mg.
The drugs were in addition to bottles of codeine-based syrup at drug hideout at the Port Harcourt Port Complex, Onne, Rivers state and Tincan seaport in Lagos.
The consignment worth over Seventeen Billion Nine Hundred and Thirty-Two Million Two Hundred Thousand Naira (N17, 932, 200, 000.00) in street value,. according to NDLEA.
The seizures were made following intelligence processed by the Agency on the movement of the shipments from their port of origin in India.
The development, according to the anti narcotic Agency, led to a demand for a 100 percent joint examination of the watch-listed containers with the Nigerian Customs Service and other sister security agencies.
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