Ten days after popular lagos socialite Adekaz, was declared wanted, security agents announced his arrest. Men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a fleeing Lagos socialite and owner of Adekaz Hotels, Ademola Kazeem, over alleged drug trafficking and money laundering.
The agency had on Tuesday, November 1, declared Adekaz wanted following his failure to honor its invitations.
The NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, said the wanted drug lord was revealed as the sponsor of some drug traffickers arrested by the anti-narcotic agency. Femi stated that they were arrested recently in their attempts to export cocaine to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and other destinations abroad.
The statement partly read,
“The search for him, however, paid off on Thursday, November 10, 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, a Lagos BRT driver, Bolujoko Babalola, on June 27 at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, when he named Ademola Kazeem as the owner of the 900 grams of cocaine he ingested.
“Following Adekaz’s failure to honour 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 N217 million, all of which were granted.”
Babafemi stated that in a related development, NDLEA operatives also nabbed a businesswoman, Okefun Chisom, over her connections with two Pakistanis: Asif Muhammed, 45, and Hussain Naveed, 57, arrested at the Lagos airport with 8kg of cocaine concealed in a sound system while attempting to board a Qatar Airways flight to Lahore, Pakistan, via Doha, on Saturday, November 5.
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“An automobile parts dealer, Omeje Oliver, who was arrested on Monday, October 31, in Enugu, where he fled to after abandoning his business at Aspanda, Trade Fair Complex, Lagos, since April 16, in connection with the seizure of 600g of heroin concealed inside the soles of ladies’ footwear going to Liberia, has been linked to another drug seizure.
“A further look at the agency’s database reveals that Omeje was also involved in a case of 1.580kg Methamphetamine that was seized from one Victor Nwobodo, who was arrested at the MMIA during his aborted trip to Jakarta, Indonesia, on February 6, 2018. Charges have been filed against the suspect at the Federal High Court, Lagos, in respect of the old seizure in addition to that of the recent one.”
