The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said it’s operatives have successfully arrested a long-wanted drug kingpin, Lekan Jimoh, popularly known as ‘Kanmo-Kanmo’, ending a 12-year manhunt following his involvement in the brutal killing of three NDLEA officers.
NDLEA announced that Kanmo-Kanmo, notorious for drug
trafficking, evading arrest and mobilizing armed thugs against security agents,
was arrested on Friday after he was tracked to his hideout in Owode town, Ogun
State, by tactical teams of the agency.
This was made known in a statement on Sunday by Femi
Babafemi, Director, Media & Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja.
Babafemi disclosed that during the operation, the suspect
was found in possession of 69 kilograms of skunk, a strain of cannabis.
He stated that the arrest marks a significant breakthrough
in the agency’s commitment to ensuring that no fugitive, regardless of how long
they evade justice, remains beyond the reach of the law.
Lekan Jimoh’s criminal history is marked by extreme violence
and lawlessness. On 15th June 2014, he orchestrated a barbaric mob action
against a team of NDLEA officers who had attempted to arrest him at his
enclave.
The attack resulted in the cold-blooded murder of three
NDLEA officers, including Rabiu Usman Kazaure and two others, who were killed
by armed thugs mobilized by Jimoh.
While the suspect managed to escape the scene that day, the
agency remained resolute in its pursuit of justice for the fallen heroes.
In another encounter with Jimoh on 12th August 2023, when
NDLEA operatives stormed his residence in Ado-Odo town, Ogun State, he managed
to escape while operatives succeeded in recovering 139 sacks of skunk with a
total weight of 1,922 kilograms.
Following assets forfeiture proceedings instituted in court
by the agency, the house in Ado-Odo, which served as a warehouse for his
illicit drug trade, has since been finally forfeited to the Federal Government.
Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives in Edo State on Tuesday raided
the Arokpa forest, Uzebba town, Owan West LGA, leading to the arrest of another
drug lord, Isihor Edika, 53, and seizure of 320kg skunk and seeds.
Similarly, in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja,
operatives on Friday tracked and
arrested a 44-year-old lady Yinka Agboola following intelligence on her online
sale of illicit substances.
At the time of her arrest, 2.2kg skunk and litres of
cannabis oil which she produces in her kitchen and sells through online
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Another suspect, Tordue Pius Richard, 30, was on Tuesday
13th January arrested with 148.3 grams of cocaine and skunk at his 12 Biskira
street, Abacha Estate, Abuja home.
While 118.1kg skunk was seized from the duo of Dauda Kareem
and Saheed Obisesan at Fadeyi area of Mushin Lagos on Friday 16th January, not
less than 116kg of same substance was recovered from a warehouse at new market
area of Enugu, Enugu State, same day.
Two suspects, Zaharadeen Yahaya, 25, and Sanusi Maman, 23,
were on Thursday 15th January arrested by NDLEA operatives along Onitsha-Asaba
expressway, Delta State, while conveying 410,800 pills of tramadol; 84.2 litres
of codeine syrup; 82,250 tablets of diazepam; 900 tabs of swinol and 65 pills
of molly.
In Oyo State, Adetunji Ahmed Abayomi, 33, was nabbed on
Thursday 15th January at Moniya, Ibadan, with 321 litres of skuchies, and 2.5kg
colorado, a synthetic strain of cannabis, while Rasheed Ajao, 28, was caught
same day at Odo-Ona, Ibadan, in possession of 5.4kg Scottish loud; 1.696kg
skunk and 2.5kg colorado, bringing the total weight to 9.696 kilograms.
In another raid at Agbeni area of the state capital, on
Saturday 17th January, 52,430 pills of tramadol and bromazepam were recovered
from the store of one Orji Edwin, currently at large.
In Kwara State, NDLEA operatives on Tuesday 13th January
raided a residential building at Gamo area of Ilorin where they seized 42 bags
of skunk that weighed 387.40kg, while a total of 157,519 bottles of codeine
syrup were discovered in a container at the Apapa Port in Lagos during a joint
examination of the shipment by NDLEA, Customs and other security agencies on
Friday.
An ex-convict, Gaddafi Ammani, 26, was arrested with various
quantities of skunk and exol-5 pills along his accomplice Ahmed
Sani, 32, at Nassarawa GRA, Ringim LGA Jigawa State, on Saturday.
Before Gaddafi’s arrest, he attempted to escape by climbing
the roofs of many houses. He was armed with a machete which he used to threaten
NDLEA operatives and even inflicted injury on one of the officers.
While commending the officers and men of the Ogun, Lagos,
Apapa, Edo, Delta, Oyo, FCT, Enugu, and Kwara Commands for the arrests and
seizures, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba
Marwa, rtd, acknowledged their commitment and enjoined them as well as their
colleagues nationwide to maintain the current tempo of their balanced approach
to the agency’s drug control efforts.
He described the arrest of Kanmo-kanmo as a triumph of
justice and a testament to the agency’s long memory, adding that the arrest
sends a clear and unambiguous message to all drug barons and fugitives.
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