The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested the fleeing owner of Adekaz Hotels, Mr. Ademola Afolabi Kazeem (also known as Alhaji Abdallah Kazeem Muhammed) for offences bordering on exportation and trafficking in illicit drugs as well as money laundering.
Recall that NDLEA had on November 1 declared the suspect wanted following his failure to honour the agency’s invitations and an order granted by a Federal High Court in Lagos.
He was alleged to have been the sponsor of some traffickers arrested by the NDLEA in the recent attempt to export cocaine to Dubai, UAE and other destinations outside Nigeria.
Spokesman for the agency, Mr. Femi Babafemi, said in a statement that Kazeem was apprehended last Thursday, November 10.
“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 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, 000,000.00), all of which were granted.”
Similarly, Babafemi disclosed that NDLEA operatives arrested a businesswoman, Ms Okefun Darlington Chisom for her alleged links with two Pakistanis: Asif Muhammed, 45 and Hussain Naveed, 57, who were arrested at the Lagos Airport with 8 kilograms of cocaine concealed in a sound system while attempting to board a Qatar Airways flight to Lahole, Pakistan via Doha on Saturday 5th Nov.
