Arrests drug kingpin ‘Warri kinsman’ over drug
shipment; couple, 2 daughters, family friend detained for running drug ring;
recovers $17.7million travelers’ cheques in children books going to Malaysia
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency
(NDLEA) have intercepted cocaine consignments concealed in lipsticks and
property title documents going to the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia
respectively.
The illicit drug consignments were recovered from
cargos being prepared for shipment at a courier company in Lagos on Thursday
3rd July 2025 by NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General
Investigation (DOGI) attached to the logistics firm.
A total of
420grams of cocaine factory fitted in 84 pieces of female lipsticks heading to
the UK were seized, while 280grams of the same Class A drug were uncovered in a
property title document (Certificate of Occupancy, C of O) being sent to Saudi
Arabia.
A notorious drug kingpin Ajetsibo Emami popularly
known as ‘Warri Kinsman’ was on Saturday 28th June arrested in Ikeja Lagos
after NDLEA operatives dismantled his drug trafficking network in a three-day
operation leading to the arrest of three other suspects. Recovered from Emami’s
network were 24 jumbo bags containing 681 pouches of Canadian Loud, a strain of
cannabis weighing 414.2 kilograms.
The bust of Emami’s drug ring followed credible
intelligence on his attempt to move the shipment to Lekki area of Lagos, from
where it will be distributed to other parts of the state and across the
country.
A businessman Ajah Johnson Uchenna and his wife
Rosemary Uchenna along with their two daughters: Stella Uchenna and Ngozi
Uchenna as well as their family friend Okoro Elijah have been taken into
custody after investigation revealed they run a major illicit drug distribution
network in Lagos. The couple was first arrested on Friday 13th June by
operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) in Ojo area of the state
and transferred to NDLEA along with 277.5kg skunk.
While they were still being investigated in custody,
credible intelligence revealed that the family business was going on in his
house. This led to a raid of their home and a packing store where 231kg of same
substance was recovered on Tuesday 1st July. Three persons arrested during the
raid include their two daughters: Ngozi Uchenna and Blessing Uchenna as well as
their family friend Okoro Elijah, who were running the family business in the
absence of the couple.
Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives at the Murtala Muhammed
International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos on Wednesday 2nd July intercepted a
frequent flyer Aburemi Hysent who specialises in conveying goods for customers
from Nigeria to Italy and vice versa. He was found to have hidden 7,660 pills
of tramadol 225mg and 200mg inside food items packed among other goods he was
conveying to Italy. He claimed he was to be paid the sum of 800 euros upon
successful delivery of the drug consignment in Italy.
In another interdiction operation at the Lagos
airport, a total of 52 pieces of the travelers cheques concealed in children
books, worth 17,700,000 Australian dollars, going to Malaysia through Istanbul
on a Turkish Airlines flight were on Friday 4th July intercepted by NDLEA
operatives at the export shed of the airport while a freight agent, Bolarinwa
Saheed has been arrested. The travelers cheques suspected to be counterfeit and
the suspect will be transferred to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
EFCC, for further investigation.
While NDLEA officers at Seme border, Badagry on
Saturday 5th July recovered 718 big balls of skunk weighing 359kg from a store
in Baba - Pupa area of the border
community, operatives on patrol along Okene-Lokoja highway intercepted 10,000
pills of tramadol 225mg and co-codamol as well as 1.050kg Colorado, a synthetic
strain of cannabis leading to the arrest of owners of the way billed drug
consignments: Chinedu Odo; Samuel Ogbonna and Kingsley Ugaji at Jabi park in
Abuja during follow up operations.
In Osun state, two suspects: Agunbiade Folusho, 40,
and Suleiman Dasola, 28, were arrested at Ajegunle area of Osogbo on Thursday
3rd July with 13,901 pills and ampoules of
different opioids recovered from them, while another suspect Adebayo
Adewale, 50, was nabbed at
a patent medicine shop at Arubidi street, Ile-Ife,
with 48, 205 pills of opioids. A raid of a vulcanizer workshop at Akindeko
junction, Alekuwodo area of Osogbo on Tuesday 1st July led to the arrest of
three suspects: Wasiu Ajadi, 45; Babatunde Jamiu Ojo, 35; and Yusuf Sarafadeen,
39, with 1,250 ampoules of pentazocine injection, 850 pills of tramadol and
three bottles of codeine-based syrup.
Not less than 24,175 kilograms of skunk were destroyed
on 9.67 hectares of cannabis farmland at Ikaka, Oke-Ila forest, Osun State when
NDLEA operatives raided the area where seven suspects: Bunmi Adedapo, 41;
Adebisi Sodiq, 26; Babatunde Gani, 22; John Sunday, 30; Israel Odabe, 29;
Solomon Odabe, 21, and Prosper Odabe, 23, were arrested on Thursday 3rd July.
In Borno, 167kg of skunk was recovered at
Gamboru-Ngala, while a total of 452kg of same psychoactive substance was seized
at Gadar Tamburawa along Zaria-Kano road with two suspects: Nasuru Saleh and
Mustapha Muhammad arrested in connection with the seizure on Thursday 3rd July.
While NDLEA operatives on patrol along Abuja-Kaduna
expressway recovered 11,000 pills of tramadol 225mg from Sule Ibrahim Sadiq,
30, on Thursday 3rd July, their counterparts in Sokoto arrested 62-year-old Joseph Onungene in
connection with the seizure of 4,800 pills of tramadol 225mg. In Kebbi state,
operatives raided Bakin Kasuwa Yauri base where they seized 312kg skunk and
10,000 tabs of diazepam. The duo of Chigbo Okolo, 52, and Ishaku Musa, 28, were
on Saturday 5th July arrested with 49,930 capsules of tramadol, at Mallum,
Ardo- Kola local council area of Taraba state.
In Edo state, NDLEA operatives raided the Ewere forest
in Owan West LGA where they arrested a wanted suspect, Alaba Monday, 49, in one
of his cannabis farms with 115kg of processed skunk, while three other
suspects: Shamsu Abdullahi; Peter Egboko; and Justin John were nabbed in
another farm measuring 2.050201 hectares.
A 78-year-old suspect Mike Abeng, was arrested with
14.49kg skunk and tramadol during a raid by NDLEA operatives at Ofudua, Obubra
LGA, Cross River state. Others nabbed with different quantities of illicit
substances during the operation include: Oyom Akam, 50; Sylvester Odem,
40; and Moses Ayo, 50, apprehended at
Ovonum, Obubra LGA.
The War Against Drug Abuse, WADA, social advocacy
activities by NDLEA Commands equally continued across the country in the past
week. Some of them include: WADA sensitization lecture delivered to students
and staff of Queen of Angel Secondary School, Mgbidi, Awgu, Enugu state; Divine
Purpose College, Eyita, Ikorodu, Lagos; Al-Furqan College, Kankia, Katsina and
residents of Gomari Binta Suga community, Maiduguri, Borno state, among others.
While commending the officers and men of DOGI, MMIA, Lagos, Seme, Kogi, Osun, Borno, Kano, Edo, Kaduna, Cross River, Kebbi and Taraba Commands of the Agency for the arrests and seizures of the past week, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) praised their counterparts in all the commands across the country for ensuring a fair balance between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts.
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