“The suspect was Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture 2015/2016 and founder of Queen Christmas Foundation…”
By Ola Kay
A wanted former beauty pageant, Aderinoye Queen Christmas has submitted herself to the Lagos State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, eight months since being at large.
The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi made the disclosure in a statement on Sunday.
Femi Babafemi explained that the suspect, originally known as Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, was declared wanted by the agency in January 2024 after she disappeared from her Lekki residence in Oral Estate, leading to a raid by NDLEA officials after a tipoff about alleged drug deals.
The NDLEA statement reads: “The suspect was Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture 2015/2016 and the founder of Queen Christmas Foundation.
“Recovered from her home during the search witnessed by the estate officials 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.
“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.”
In a related development, the agency also stated that it intercepted hard drugs worth N17.9 billion in major operations in Lagos and Rivers States.
Forthermore, the NDLEA stated that hard drugs intercepted at the Onne and Tincan seaports, in an operation, were a total of 31,124,600 pills of tramadol 225mg and bottles of codeine-based syrup.
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