A former beauty queen, Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, has turned herself in to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Lagos, eight months after she was declared wanted for a drug offence.
Aderinoye, who was the Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture in 2015/2016, surrendered to the NDLEA on Wednesday, August 28, after being on the run since January.
According to the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, Aderinoye was declared wanted after she escaped from her Lekki, Lagos residence when NDLEA operatives raided her apartment on January 24.
Babafemi said, “Wanted ex-beauty queen, Ms. Aderinoye Queen Christmas, also known as Ms. Queen Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, has surrendered to the Lagos Command of the agency after about eight months in hiding.”
The NDLEA had recovered 606 grammes of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, an electronic weighing scale, large quantities of drugs packing plastics, a black RAV 4 SUV, and her picture frame, among others, from her apartment.
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Aderinoye claimed she had been hiding in Akure, Ondo State, since January when she escaped arrest in Lekki, Lagos.
In a related development, the NDLEA has intercepted a total of 31,124,600 pills of tramadol 225mg and bottles of codeine-based syrup worth over N17,932,200,000 in street value at the Port Harcourt Port Complex, Onne, Rivers State, and Tincan Seaport in Lagos.
The agency’s operatives also seized 1,122 kilograms of cannabis from a suspect, Mustapha Ibrahim, along Orchid Road, Ajah, Lagos.