Men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have apprehended the head of a drug syndicate after years ok the run.
According to reports, Alhaji Sulaiman Jimoh (alias Olowoidiogede, popularly known as Temo), a 57-year-old man is said to be the leader of a drug cartel in mushin.
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Confirming the arrest, the spokesperson of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, in a statement released on Wednesday, July 24 noted that the suspect large consignment of hard drugs have been intercepted in the last two years, worth billions of naira, reportedly belongings to Temo.
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‘’Some of the recent seizures of his shipments include: a 14, 524.8 kilograms of Ghana Loud, a strong strain of cannabis sativa, smuggled into Lagos from Ghana in two trucks and a J5 bus intercepted at Ojuelegba area of Lagos in the early hours of Sunday 28th January 2024; two truck-loads of the same substance weighing 8,852kg intercepted at Eleko beach, Lekki Lagos on 4th May 2023 and 252kg of Loud seized from his enclave in Mushin on Wednesday 26th July 2023. Indeed, in the last two encounters, his men engaged NDLEA operatives in a gunfight.
The drug kingpin was very notorious for always being on the move to evade arrest but with the persistence and determination of the Agency aided by modern tools and intelligence, the concerted effort to get him paid off at 10am on Monday 22nd July 2024 when NDLEA’s surveillance teams on his trail tracked and pinned him down at Igbarere street, Mushin. A reinforcement of about 50 operatives was immediately mobilized to the area while he was attempting to escape in a Mercedes Benz SUV GLE 350 marked 01G-300G. His attempt to escape by mobilizing hoodlums to engage and distract the operatives however failed after which he was overpowered and whisked away from the chaotic scene while his men surrendered to the superior firepower of the anti-narcotic agents who also succeeded in recovering the Mercedes Benz SUV the suspect was found in.”
The chairman of the NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) also commended officers of the Lagos State Command, Special Monitoring Task Force and other formations on the arrest of Temo, urging them.to intensify the heat on all other drug cartels.
He said:
“I’m particularly delighted because the arrest was eventually effected in his enclave without any casualty despite the attack on our men. This is therefore a clear message to others still involved in this criminal trade of illicit drugs that if they don’t opt out now, we’ll get them because we’re just steps away from their doorsteps and more importantly they can only run, they can’t hide forever”,
