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NDLEA Nabs Lagos General Overseer For Shipping 900kg Illicit Drugs Into Nigeria

...recovers 3,476kg Colorado, Loud, Skunk; 645,906 pills of opioids in Nasarawa, Kano, Lagos, Gombe, Edo

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NDLEA Nabs Lagos General Overseer For Shipping 900kg Illicit Drugs Into Nigeria
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) announced on Sunday that it has arrested the founder and General Overseer of The Turn of Mercy Church, Prophet Adefolusho Aanu Olasele (alias Abbas Ajakaiye) for drug related offences.

The agency in a statement signed by its spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said the cleric is suspect to be the masterminding of multiple shipments of illicit drugs into Nigeria.

According to NDLEA,
Prophet Adefolusho was arrested at his church premises located in Okun Ajah, Ogombo road, Lekki area of Lagos State.

The statement added that the Prophet was arrested on Sunday, 3rd August 2025 by NDLEA officers who waited for him since morning to conclude the Sunday worship service in the evening before moving in on him the moment he stepped out of the church premises.

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Babafemi said : “The arrest came after he had evaded arrest twice and fled to Ghana to hide since June when operatives started trailing him following the seizure of two shipments of Ghana Loud, a strain of cannabis linked to him.

“The first seizure of 200kg of the psychoactive substance was made at Okun Ajah beach on 4th June 2025 while another consignment of 700kg of same substance was recovered from his delivery van on 6th July 2025.

“In his statement, he admitted ferrying the illicit consignments through the waterways from Ghana into Nigeria, adding that he had fled to the West African country to hide after he escaped arrest twice in the recent past.”

The statement also said NDLEA operatives on Thursday, 7th August raided an apartment at Kishi House 11 Layi Ajayi Bembe street, Parkview Estate Ikoyi where they arrested a suspect Benjamin Udo Ukoh and recovered 32 pouches of Canadian Loud, a strain of Cannabis with a total weight of 15.63kg.

“In Nasarawa State, NDLEA operatives on Saturday, 9th August recovered a large consignment of skunk, a strain of cannabis weighing 3,093 kilograms from the trio of Emmanuel Asoquo Johnny, 51; Okem Raphael, 33, and Chekwube Odo, 25, at New Karu area of the state.

“While 29-year-old Nura Yahaya was nabbed at Geza area of Kumbotso, Kano State with 639 blocks of skunk weighing 359kg on Friday 8th August, another suspect Umar Adamu Umar, 27, was taken into custody on Wednesday 6th August by NDLEA officers after seizing 9kg of Colorado, a synthetic strain of cannabis from him along Zaria-Kano road, Kano.

“In another interdiction operation in Kano, 20,000 pills of tramadol and 200 ampoules of diazepam injection were recovered from a suspect Usman Musa, 30, at Gadar Tamburawa along Zaria-Kano road on Friday 8th August.

“A raid at an uncompleted building located at Tudun Wadan Pantami in Gombe town, Gombe State on Friday, 8th August led to the recovery of 550, 266 pills of opioids mainly tramadol while a suspect Usama Isah was arrested.

“The following day Saturday, 9th August, another suspect, Ibrahim Adamu, 23, was arrested by NDLEA officers along Potiskum road, Bajoga with 50,000 capsules of tramadol.

“In Edo State, a white Toyota Hiace bus marked YAB 5522 K coming from Onitsha Anambra and heading to Isanlu in Kogi was Wednesday 6th August intercepted at Ewu junction, Edo by NDLEA operatives who after a search recovered 23, 940 capsules of tramadol, 1,100 tablets of same opioid and 400 ampoules of pentazocine injection with a suspect Taiye Jethro arrested.”

The statement said NDLEA Commands and formations across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitization activities during the week under review.

The activities took them
to schools, worship centres, work places and communities among others.

These include WADA enlightenment lecture to students and staff of Mind City College, Saki, Oyo; Gwagwarwa Primary School, Nasarawa LGA, Kano; officers of the Nigerian Army 241 Recce Model Battalion, Nguru, Yobe; members of Engine Grinders Association, Gboko, Benue; while the Ekiti state command of NDLEA paid WADA advocacy visit to the Nigerian Correctional Service in Ado Ekiti, just as the Anambra State command of the Agency paid a similar WADA advocacy visit to the Speaker of the State House of Assembly.

In his reaction, the Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, retired Brig.-Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa commended the officers and men of the Lagos, Nasarawa, Gombe, Kano, and Edo Commands for the arrests and seizures.

Marwa enjoined them and their colleagues across the country to continue with the ongoing balanced approach to the drug control efforts of the Agency.
(vitalnewsngr.com)

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