The 41-year-old Canadian woman, Adrienne Munju, who was arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, for drug trafficking into the country, has opened up on why she committed the act.
She stated that she brought drugs into the country so that she could pay for her ongoing Masters programme in Canada.
Recall that she was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, for importing a large consignment of a strong strain of synthetic cannabis called ‘Canadian Loud’.
The suspect was arrested during the inward clearance of passengers on a KLM Airline flight from Canada at Terminal 1 of the Lagos airport on Thursday, October 3, 2024.
A statement by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said during a joint examination of her three bags, Adrienne, who was in Nigeria for the first time, was found with 74 parcels of the illicit substance weighing 35.20 kilograms stuffed in two of her three bags.
“In her statement, she claimed she was recruited to traffic the consignment through an online platform for 10,000 Canadian dollars upon successful delivery in Lagos. She said she took the offer because she needed the money to pay for her ongoing Master’s degree programme in Canada,” Babafemi added.
