The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says a wanted former beauty queen, Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, has surrendered to the Lagos command of the agency after about eight months in hiding.

NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi said in a statement on Sunday that the agency declared the suspect wanted in January after she escaped from her Lekki, Lagos residence.

He said this was when NDLEA operatives raided her apartment at Oral Estate, Lekki, on Wednesday, January 24, following credible intelligence she deals in illicit substances.

Mr Babafemi said the suspect was Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture 2015/2016 and the founder of Queen Christmas Foundation.

“Operatives recovered 606g of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, from her home.

“Other things recovered were 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,” he said.

Meanwhile, he said the NDLEA recovered no fewer than 1,490 pills of tramadol at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Rivers.

Mr Babafemi said operatives arrested a suspect on Tuesday, August 27, while attempting to board a Cronos airline flight to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, with the tramadol pills.

He said the drugs were concealed and packaged as cosmetics of different brands inside his luggage.

“His attempt to compromise the officers to evade arrest was rebuffed,” he said.

(NAN)