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After years of evading arrest, NDLEA nabs most wanted Lagos drug baron, Temo

. Marwa commends officers for professionalism, urges them to intensify the heat on drug cartels

After many years of wearing the toga of invincibility, the overall head of the Mushin, Lagos drug cartel, 57-year-old Alhaji Sulaiman Jimoh (alias Olowoidiogede, populary known as Temo), has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at his enclave after an initial resistance from him and his horde of hoodlums.

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.

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 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.

In his reaction to the arrest of Temo, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) commended the officers and men of the Lagos State Command, Special Monitoring Task Force and other formations tasked with the assignment of getting Temo arrested for their resilience, vigilance, and professionalism. He urged them to intensify the heat on all drug cartels wherever they are located. “I’m particularly delighted because the arrest was eventually effected in his enclave without any casualty despite the attack on our men. This is therefore a clear message to others still involved in this criminal trade of illicit drugs that if they don’t opt out now, we’ll get them because we’re just steps away from their doorsteps and more importantly they can only run, they can’t hide forever”, Marwa stated.

Femi Babafemi
Director, Media & Advocacy
NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja
Wednesday 24th July 2024

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This is much o

See goods

Sometimes e good as them they catch them.
Youths don mad finish

Ahh this name is so disappointing. My fellow name checkers I feel so bad

Hmmm

This is serious.

You can't arrest a sitting President

Right inside the Lagos Tinubu build. This one no be Igbo man again abi? SULAIMON JIMOH TEMO! NCAN over to you guys.

They arrested the wrong Baron. The real notorious drug baron has a house in Bourdillion.

Cc

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Family matter.

I swear I came here thinking to see one chukwuebuka Emeka

Imagine my relief when I saw Suleiman jimoh

I thought no Yoruba deals on drugs

comodo:
I used to think that its only Igbo's that engage in this business. This one get Farm for illicit drugs

Media gas lighting na, if they tell you the history of drug carriage and dealings from Lagos alone from the 80's you will see that Igbos might not even near what this other people are doing...

I know Igbos still have work to do in curbing this illegal drug thing because personally I don't even want Igbos to be labeled with it...

chisomkachy:
After years of evading arrest, NDLEA nabs most wanted Lagos drug baron, Temo

Marwa commends officers for professionalism, urges them to intensify the heat on drug cartels

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/EfrDtxFFuwd8GD79/?mibextid=oFDknk

I first of thought they arrested the person inside Aso Rock 🤣🤣🤣

We need more of this.
When it comes to drugs a country can be classified into any of the three. Producer(Mexico, Columbia) transit (Nigeria, G. BISSAU) or consuming (South Africa, USA).
Nigeria used to a transit nation only due to porous land borders and at our airports.
However within the last 15 years, we have metamorpsed into semi -producing, transit and consuming drug nation.
It's very disheartening and will most likely get worse with this istration.

Nice job

SeeWahala:
Wow! see all the drugs recovered in one single bust

It's like they have finally overtaken easterners in this particular line of business

So you know that evil is not tribal but individual

Lost

Ok

Rich N*gga P

Good Baseus and Remax Powerbanks at wholesale and retail rates.

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A lot of people would have been disappointed when they opened this thread thinking it was a particular tribe but surprised it's one of their brothers. Once we can start holding each other able in this country irrespective of tribe I believe we would move forward as a nation.

no be even cocaine
Thats what we have been saying, go after the REAL BARON and the distributors in wholesale not the agbo sellers. Once the root is cut off, all others die naturally. Kudos to the NDLEA. More of this, loud and hemp price will increase soon in mushin and ojuelegba axis when there is no supply again.