After years of evading arrest, NDLEA nabs maximum desired Lagos drug baron, Temo
. Marwa commends officials for professionalism, urges them to heighten the warmth on drug cartels
After a few years of sporting the toga of invincibility, the general head of the Mushin, Lagos drug cartel, 57-year- vintage Alhaji Sulaiman Jimoh (alias Olowoidiogede, populary called Temo), has been arrested through operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at his enclave after an preliminary resistance from him and his horde of hoodlums.
In the final years, the NDLEA had intercepted massive consignments of illicit tablets really well worth billions of naira owned through Temo however he has remained in large part evasive whilst some encounters with him and his armed gangs in his Mushin enclave had led to gunfight.
Some of the latest seizures of his shipments include: a 14, 524. eight kilograms of Ghana Loud, a robust stress of hashish sativa, smuggled into Lagos from Ghana in vans and a J5 bus intercepted at Ojuelegba place of Lagos withinside the early hours of Sunday twenty eighth January 2024; truck- hundreds of the identical substance weighing eight ,852kg intercepted at Eleko beach, Lekki Lagos on 4th May 2023 and 252kg of Loud seized from his enclave in Mushin on Wednesday twenty sixth July 2023. Indeed, withinside the final encounters, his guys engaged NDLEA operatives in gunfight.
The drug kingpin turned into very infamous for constantly being at the circulate to steer clear of arrest however with endurance and resolution of the Agency aided through current gear and intelligence, the concerted attempt to get him paid off at 10am on Monday twenty second July 2024 whilst NDLEA's surveillance groups on his path tracked and pinned him down at Igbarere street, Mushin. A reinforcement of approximately 50 operatives turned into without delay mobilized to the place whilst he turned into trying to get away in a Mercedes Benz SUV GLE 350 marked 01G-300G. His try to get away through mobilizing hoodlums to have interaction and distract the operatives but failed and then he turned into overpowered and whisked farfar from the chaotic scene whilst his guys surrendered to the advanced firepower of the anti-narcotic marketers who additionally succeeded in recuperating the Mercedes Benz SUV the suspect turned into determined in.
In his response to the arrest of Temo, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) recounseled the officials and guys of the Lagos State Command, Special Monitoring Task Force and different formations tasked with the mission of having Temo arrested for his or her resilience, vigilance, and professionalism. He entreated them to heighten the warmth on all drug cartels anyplace they may be located. "I'm specifically extremely joyful due to the fact the arrest turned into finally effected in his enclave with none casualty notwithstanding the assault on our guys . This is consequently a clean message to others nonetheless concerned on this crook change of illicit tablets that in the event that they don't decide out now, we'll get them due to the fact we're simply steps farfar from their doorsteps and extra importantly they are able to handiest run, they are able to 't conceal forever", Marwa stated.
Femi Babafemi
Director, Media & Advocacy
NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja
Wednesday twenty fourth July 2024
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