- Two ladies, ex-convict, others nabbed
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a wanted 61-year-old drug kingpin and Lagos socialite, Alhaja Aishat Feyisara Ajoke Elediye, on New Year’s Day in her mansion at Okota, Lagos, following the interception of a truckload illicit drug consignment from her staff member same day.
According to Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, in a statement in Abuja, the woman also known in the drug underworld as “Iya Ruka”, or Alhaja Ajoke, in social circle, had her identity shrouded for years while operating a drug cartel from Mushin, Lagos.
Babafemi said the lid was, however, blown off on January 1 when the agency’s operatives intercepted a white Izuzu truck carrying 44 jumbo sacks containing 1,540 kilogrammes of imported cannabis driven by one of her staff members, Abideen Adio, 41.
Thereafter, he said, the operatives stormed Ajoke’s hideout at 33 Adebayo Oyewole Street, Okota, where she was arrested.
A dealer in imported fabrics and shoes from China, Ajoke’s is also a big illicit drug trader and member of the influential Iyalaje of Blessing Sisters, Lagos, Babafemi added.
In another major operation, the agency’s officers arrested a United States-trained Hollywood and Nollywood filmmaker, Emeka Emmanuel Mbadiwe, who is also a motivational speaker at his Lekki Hotel room.
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Mbadiwe was arrested after his partner, Uzoekwe Ugochukwu James, was nabbed earlier same day at a warehouse in Ajao Estate, Isolo, where he was sent by Mbadiwe to collect a shipment of 33 parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis.
Babafemi said the drugs weighing 17.30 kilogrammes arrived at the Import Shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja last December from the U.S. on a Delta Airline flight, concealed in large wooden boxes.
Others arrested were a young graduate Khadijat Abdulraheem, 24, and a 20-year-old student of the University of Ilorin, Ayomide Morakinyo, at Tanke University of Ilorin Road, Oke Odo, Ilorin for producing and selling drug laced cupcakes to students. Forty-two pieces of drugged cakes were recovered from them in their apartment.