A Canadian lady named Adrienne Munju, aged 41, has been arrested and sentenced to 11 years imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Lagos State for importing 74 parcels of Canadian Loud, alongside a strong strain of synthetic cannabis weighing 35.20 kilogrammes into the shores of Nigeria.
The lady was apprehended by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Wednesday, at terminal 1 of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on October 3, 2024, during an inward clearance of inbound passengers.
Making a statement after her arrest, she claimed she was recruited to traffic the illicit consignment through an online platform for 10,000 Canadian dollars upon successful delivery to Lagos.
She agreed and confessed to the collection of the offer to be a drug dealer, because she needed the money to pay for her ongoing Master’s degree programme in Canada.
According to the NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said the Prosecuting Counsel, Barrister Ibrahim, informed the court that the illegal acts of the convict contravened sections 20(1}(a) and 19 of the NDLEA Cap N30, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and punishable under Section 20(2)(a) of the same Act.
Declaring the judgement over the case, the judge sentenced Munju to six years imprisonment on count one and five years on count two, after listening to the statements made by the defendant’s counsel.
“The judge, however, gave the convict an option of N50 million fine on each of the two counts, bringing the total fine to N100 million, “ the statement read.
Also, earlier in the week during a search conducted by the agency at the airport, a total of 70 parcels of Canadian Loud, weighing 35.70 kg, was recovered from a lady parading as a fertility nurse to innocent victims.
The NDLEA spokesperson while speaking said : "During her interview, she claimed she was in Nigeria to meet her boyfriend, who instructed her to come with the large consignment of the highly sought-after synthetic cannabis.”
“At the seaports, a total of 162,351 bottles of codeine-based syrup were intercepted from two containers at the Apapa seaport in Lagos by NDLEA operatives during a joint examination of the containers with officials from the Customs Service and other security agencies on Tuesday, October 15" she stated.
