The Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company (NDLEA), has arrested 4 members of a syndicate in Lagos the place a Sports activities Utility Automobile was recovered and two homes already traced to them sealed for forfeiture to the federal authorities.
That is even because the NDLEA declared a pair, Kazeem Omogoriola Owoalade (alias Abdul Qassim Adisa Balogun) and Rashidat Ayinke Owoalade (alias Bolarinwa Rashidat Ayinke), needed for allegedly operating a cocaine cartel from India.
The 2 members of the syndicate arrested embody Imran Taofeek Olalekan and Ishola Isiaka Olalekan, who had been picked up on April 3, 2024 following their bid to export 3.40kg cocaine on a Qatar Airways flight going to Oman by the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport, MMIA Ikeja, Lagos.
NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi stated, “Whereas Imran was the courier conveying the drug consignment to Oman, Ishola recruited him for the pinnacle of the cartel, which investigation has now revealed to be Alhaji Kazeem Owoalade whose Indian residence allow bears Abdul Qassim Adisa Balogun based mostly in India.
“Efforts to dismantle his community in Nigeria paid off after 5 weeks of surveillance and follow-up operations when one other member of the syndicate, Hamed Abimbola Saheed who works straight with the baron was arrested on Tuesday Might 14 at Abule Egba space of Lagos.
“It was certainly Saheed who lodged Imran in a resort a day earlier than his aborted journey to Oman and equally dropped him and Ishola on the Lagos airport the day they had been arrested.”
Throughout a search of Hamed home, NDLEA operatives recovered some phenacetine, a slicing agent for Cocaine, weighing 900 grams.
The NDLEA stated Hamed additionally confessed that the recovered substance was what was left of the consignment Imran was taking to Oman the day he was arrested.
Babafemi additional stated within the assertion that Hammed’s arrest led to a follow-up operation on the residence of the Owoalade couple at 20 Eyiaro road, Ogudu Orioke, Lagos the place one other suspect was arrested and a brand new mannequin Toyota RAV4 SUV marked FKJ-773 JJ belonging to Rashidat and extra 400 grams of Cocaine recovered along with already ready suitcases for use for illicit drug concealment, digital weighing scales and different paraphernalia.”
In the meantime, NDLEA officers connected to a courier agency in Lagos on Wednesday, Might 15, intercepted two parcels, containing Cocaine and Amphetamine hid in metal bolts and shea butter.