NDLEA arrests two wanted drug lords

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a wanted drug lord, Damilare Ajiboye, alias “Na God”, for evading arrest for 12 months.

The arrest followed a raid on his warehouse in Akala, Mushin area of ​​Lagos.
NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, said the suspects were arrested on Wednesday.

Babafemi said 1,101kg of Ghana Loud, a potent cannabis strain, was seized from the warehouse on September 4, 2023. He, however, said Ajiboye’s arrest at a bank in Ogun was the result of a well-coordinated effort by the agency’s Directorate of Asset and Financial Investigations, which tracked and sealed 20 bank accounts linked to the suspect.

In a related development, Babafemi said NDLEA operatives in Lagos on Friday arrested a wanted community leader and Sarkin Yanma of Badagry, Alhaji Bashir Talba.

He said this followed the arrest of his two wives and sons on September 18 and the seizure of a total of 226.2kg of cannabis from their home in Badagry.

In another operation in Lagos, the NDLEA said over 9.7kg of cannabis sativa and 50 litres of Monkey Tail, a fermented mixture of cannabis and dry gin, were recovered from a suspect named Florence Moses at Badore area of ​​Ajah, Lekki State on Tuesday, September 18, when the drugs were seized. 24.

Meanwhile, in Kogi, three suspects were arrested, one Owolabi Dele, 42; one Ayodele Monday, 40; and one Olawale Ojo, 22, who was arrested by operatives of the NDLEA along the Okene-Lokoja-Abuja Expressway.

Babafemi added that they were arrested while transporting 132 bags of cannabis weighing 2,062.00kg in a Mercedes container truck from Osun to Dede, Abuja.