Ex-Beauty Queen Wanted For Drug Trafficking Surrenders To NDLEA After 8 Months In Hiding

Wanted Ex-Beauty Queen, Ms. Queen Aderinoye, Surrenders to NDLEA After Eight Months on the Run

Ms. Aderinoye Queen Christmas, also known as Ms. Queen Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, a former beauty queen, has turned herself in to the Lagos Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) after evading capture for nearly eight months.

The NDLEA declared her wanted in January after she fled her residence in Lekki, Lagos, during a raid by the agency at her apartment in Oral Estate.

In a statement released on Sunday by the NDLEA’s Director of Media & Advocacy, Mr. Femi Babafemi, it was revealed that the raid took place on Wednesday, January 24, based on credible intelligence that Ms. Aderinoye was involved in the trafficking of illicit substances.

Ms. Aderinoye, who was crowned Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture 2015/2016, is also the founder of the Queen Christmas Foundation.

During the search of her home, which was conducted in the presence of estate officials, the NDLEA recovered 606 grams of Canadian Loud (a synthetic strain of cannabis), an electronic weighing scale, a significant amount of drug packaging materials, a black RAV 4 SUV with license plate Lagos KSF 872 GQ, and a framed photograph of the suspect, among other items.

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According to the statement, “The suspect, who claimed she had been hiding in Akure, Ondo State, since January when she escaped arrest in Lekki, Lagos, surrendered to the agency on Wednesday, August 28.”

In a related development, NDLEA operatives seized a total of 1,122 kilograms of cannabis from a suspect, Mustapha Ibrahim, during an arrest on Monday, August 26, along Orchid Road, Ajah, Lagos.

On the same day, 816 kilograms of the same substance were recovered from a location nearby, believed to belong to a suspect who is currently at large.

Additionally, in Niger State, NDLEA officers apprehended a suspect named Friday Gabriel on Monday, August 26, along the Minna-Suleja road. Gabriel was found in possession of 1,900 capsules of tramadol, 300 bottles of codeine syrup, and 600 packets of exol-5 tablets.

Similarly, on Saturday, August 31, NDLEA operatives in Bauchi State arrested two suspects, Garba Muhammed, 35, and Usman Yakubu Shehu, 31, on the Bauchi-Gombe road.

The suspects were caught transporting 308 blocks of cannabis, weighing 246.4 kilograms, hidden in a false compartment of a J5 bus with Edo State license plate URM 38 ZY.