NDLEA Confirms Arrest of ‘Most Wanted’ Lagos Drug Baron, Alhaji Temo
NDLEA Confirms Arrest of ‘Most Wanted’ Lagos Drug Baron, Alhaji Temo
A 57-year-old drug kingpin, Alhaji Sulaiman Jimoh (alias Olowoidiogede, populary known as Temo), who has been on the run for some years over illicit drug activies, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Lagos State.
The suspect, said to be the overall head of the Mushin drug cartel was arrested at his enclave after an initial resistance from him and his horde of hoodlums.
This was made known by Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA Director, Media and dvocacy in a statement on Wednesday.
He said the suspect was arrested around 10am on Monday 22nd July 2024 when NDLEA’s surveillance teams on his trail tracked and pinned him down at Igbarere street, Mushin.
“In the last two years, the NDLEA 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 gunfight,” he said.
“Some of the recent seizures of his shipments include: a 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 28th January 2024; two truck-loads of the same substance weighing 8,852kg intercepted at Eleko beach, Lekki Lagos on 4th May 2023 and 252kg of Loud seized from his enclave in Mushin on Wednesday 26th July 2023. Indeed, in the last two encounters, his men engaged NDLEA operatives in gunfight.
“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 10am on Monday 22nd July 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 mobilised to the area while he was attempting to escape in a Mercedes Benz SUV GLE 350 marked 01G-300G.
