NDLEA Arrests Wanted Drugs Kingpin, Saudi-bound Trafficker With Cocaine

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a wanted suspected notorious kingpin, Wasiu Sanni Gbolahan popularly known as Teacher, who recruits mules for a cartel.

The 64-year-old Gbolahan is a housing and property agent, with seven children and four wives, one of whom is now late.

The NDLEA also arrested a 56-year-old trafficker, Lawal Lateef Oyenuga who was on a mission to deliver 400grams of the class A drug concealed in a pair of palm sandals to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi said the NDLEA operatives attached to the screening point of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos had on Thursday 24th November intercepted Oyenuga with a pair of black palm sandals packed in the luggage he was going with to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia via Addis Ababa on an Ethiopian Airways flight.

A thorough examination of the sandals revealed they were used to conceal two parcels of cocaine weighing 400 grams.

In his statement, Oyenuga claimed he was recruited to traffic the drug by Gbolahan popularly known as Teacher, adding that he was first given some pellets of cocaine to swallow but when he couldn’t do that, then he was given the ones concealed in the palm sandals.