NDLEA Arrests Wanted Lagos Socialite Over Alleged Drug Trafficking
Category: Crime News
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)
have apprehended a
wanted Lagos socialite and owner of Adekaz Hotels, Alhaji Ademola Afolabi
Kazeem over offences bordering on exportation and trafficking of illicit drugs as
well as money laundering.
The NDLEA had declared Kazeem wanted
over alleged illicit drug trafficking.
The anti-narcotic agency
said Kazeem was declared wanted after he failed to honor NDLEA invitations and
a subsequent order from a Federal High Court in Lagos.
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NDLEA accused the Lagos socialite of sponsoring some illicit drug
traffickers recently arrested while attempting to export cocaine to the United
Arab Emirates (UAE).
The agency disclosed that the socialite went
underground after the arrest of one Bolujoko Muyiwa Babalola in June, a Lagos
BRT driver, who acts as his mule.
Mr Femi Babafemi, NDLEA Director
of Media and Advocacy in a statement on Sunday said the suspect was arrested
10 days after he was declared wanted.
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Babafemi explained that the search for him paid off on Thursday, November 10
when he was successfully taken into custody where he is currently being
interrogated.
He said, “Ten days after he was declared wanted,
operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested
fleeing Lagos socialite and owner of Adekaz Hotels, Alhaji Ademola Afolabi
Kazeem (a.k.a Alhaji Abdallah Kazeem Muhammed) over offences bordering on
exportation and trafficking of illicit drugs as well as money laundering.
“The search for him however paid off on Thursday, 10th Nov when he
was successfully taken into custody where he is currently being interviewed.
His lid was blown open after the arrest of one of his mules, Bolujoko
Muyiwa Babalola, a Lagos BRT driver on 27th June at the Murtala Muhammed
International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, when he named Alhaji Ademola Kazeem, alias
Adekaz as the owner of the 900grams of cocaine he ingested.”
“Following Adekaz’s failure to honor invitations sent to him, the
Agency approached a Federal High Court in Lagos with three prayers: to attach
and seal his identified properties in choice areas of Lagos Island and Ibadan;
declare him wanted and block his bank account with a cash balance of Two
Hundred and Seventeen Million Naira (N217,000,000.00), all of which were
granted,” he added.
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