NDLEA arrests most wanted leader of drug cartel in Lagos, Temo

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested the head of the drug cartel in the Mushin area of Lagos, Alhaji Sulaiman Jimoh aka Temo.
The NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
He said the suspect who has been on the agency’s wanted list for more than two years was arrested at his enclave after an initial resistance from his horde of hoodlums on Monday.
The spokesman added that NDLEA operatives had intercepted large consignments of illicit drugs worth billions of naira owned by Temo but he has remained largely evasive while a few encounters with him and his armed gangs in his Mushin enclave had resulted in gunfights.
Babafemi said: “Some of the recent seizures of his shipments include 14, 524.8 kilograms of Ghana Loud, a strong strain of cannabis sativa, smuggled into Lagos from Ghana in two trucks and a J5 bus intercepted at Ojuelegba area of Lagos in the early hours of Sunday, January 28, 2024, two truck-loads of the same substance weighing 8,852kg intercepted at Eleko beach, Lekki, Lagos on May 4, 2023 and 252kg of Loud seized from his enclave in Mushin on Wednesday, July 26, 2023.
“Indeed, in the last two encounters, his men engaged NDLEA operatives in gunfights.
“The drug kingpin was very notorious for always being on the move to evade arrest but with persistence and determination of the agency aided by modern tools and intelligence, the concerted effort to get him paid off at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, July 22, 2024 when NDLEA’s surveillance teams on his trail tracked and pinned him down at Igbarere Street, Mushin.
“A reinforcement of about 50 operatives was immediately mobilized to the area while he was attempting to escape in a Mercedes Benz SUV GLE 350 marked 01G-300G. His attempt to escape by mobilizing hoodlums to engage and distract the operatives however failed after which he was overpowered and whisked away from the chaotic scene while his men surrendered to the superior firepower of the anti-narcotic agents who also succeeded in recovering the Mercedes Benz SUV the suspect was found in.”
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