The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has arrested, Sulaiman Jimoh populaly know as Temo, 57-year-old old alleged leader of a drug cartel in Lagos.
Mr Femi Babafemi, NDLEA, Director of Media and Advocacy, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
Babafemi said that the arrest was done after many years of aversion and much resistance from the drug dealer and his gang of hoodlums.
“After many years of wearing the toga of invincibility, the overall head of the Mushin, Lagos drug cartel, popularly known as Temo), has been arrested by operatives of the NDLEA.
“In the past two years, the NDLEA had intercepted large consignments of illicit drugs worth billions of naira owned by Temo.
“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.
Babafemi said that some of the recent seizures of the drug barons shipments included 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.
According to him, the drugs were intercepted at Ojuelegba area of Lagos in the early hours of Jan., 28.
He added that two truck-loads of the same substance weighing 8,852kg were also intercepted at Eleko beach, Lekki Lagos on May 4, 2023 and 252kg of Loud seized from his enclave in Mushin on July 26, 2023.
Babafemi said that in the last two encounters, men of the NDLEA operatives were engaged in a gunfight.