Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a wanted drug kingpin, Damilare Ajiboye aka “Na God” after 12 months of being on the run.
Gatekeepers News reports that the arrest comes after a raid on the suspect’s warehouse in Akala, Mushin area of Lagos.
Spokesman of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi in a statement released on Sunday in Abuja, said the suspect was arrested on Wednesday.
Babafemi revealed that 1,101kg of Ghana Loud, a strong strain of cannabis was recovered at the warehouse on Sept. 4, 2023.
He noted that the successful arrest of Ajiboye in a bank in Ogun followed well-coordinated efforts by the agency’s Directorate of Assets and Financial Investigation, which traced 20 bank accounts linked to the suspect and blocked them.
In a related development, Babafemi said that operatives of NDLEA in Lagos on Friday arrested a wanted community leader of Sarkin Yamma, Badagry named Alhaji Bashir Talba.
This follows the arrest of his two wives and son and seizure of a total of 226.2kg of cannabis at their homes in Badagry on Sept. 18.
Also, operatives of NDLEA recovered more than 9.7kg cannabis sativa and 50 litres of monkey tail, a fermented combo of cannabis and dry gin from a suspect, Florence Moses at Badore area of Ajah, Lekki on Tuesday, Sept. 24.
In addition, two suspects named Owolabi Dele, 42; Ayodele Monday, 40; and Olawale Ojo, 22, were arrested by NDLEA operatives along Okene-Lokoja-Abuja expressway in Kogi state.
According to Babafemi; they were arrested while conveying 132 sacks of cannabis weighing 2,062.00kg in a Mercedes container truck from Osun to Dei Dei in Abuja.
Another suspect named Benedict Simire, 57, was also arrested at Ayetoro Road, Kabba, while conveying 33.40kg of same psychoactive substance and a pump action gun with six cartridges on Wednesday, Sept. 25.
The spokesman said, “On the same Wednesday, operatives of the Marine Command of NDLEA intercepted a two 40HP Yamaha engines boat bearing 71 bags of Ghana Loud weighing 2,982kgs along Alfa beach, Lekki area of Lagos.”
“Men of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Western Marine Command were on hand to support the NDLEA officers to recover the boat and exhibits after the two suspects in the boat dived into the water.”
Also, Operatives of the agency intercepted 1,500 cartons of codeine-based cough syrup at Port Harcourt Ports complex, Onne, Rivers state.
The spokesman noted that the cartons contained a total of 150,000 bottles of the syrup and were seized during a joint examination of a targeted 40ft container, with men of Nigerian Customs and other security agencies.
