NDLEA Nabs Wanted General Overseer For Alleged Cross-border Drug Trafficking

The founder and General Overseer of The Turn of Mercy Church, Prophet Adefolusho Aanu Olasele (alias Abbas Ajakaiye) has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for allegedly masterminding multiple shipments of illicit drugs into Nigeria.

Prophet Adefolusho, after months of fleeing abroad, was arrested at his church located at Okun Ajah, Ogombo Road in the Lekki area of Lagos on Sunday August 3, 2025 by NDLEA officers.

The NDLEA operatives had waited for the suspect at his church from morning till evening so that he could conclude the Sunday worship service.

NDLEA’s spokesperson Femi Babafemi said the arrest came after Adefolusho had evaded arrest twice and fled to Ghana to hide since June when operatives started trailing him following the seizure of two shipments of Ghana Loud, a strain of cannabis linked to him.

According to Babafemi, the first seizure of 200kg of the psychoactive substance was made at Okun Ajah beach on June 4, 2025, while another consignment of 700kg of same substance was recovered from his delivery van on July 6, 2025.

The anti-narcotic agency said in his statement, Adefolusho admitted ferrying the illicit consignments through the waterways from Ghana into Nigeria, adding that he had fled to the West African country to hide after he escaped arrest twice in the recent past.

In another operation in Lagos, NDLEA operatives on Thursday, August 7, 2025, raided an apartment at Kishi House 11 Layi Ajayi Bembe Street, Parkview Estate Ikoyi where they arrested a suspect Benjamin Udo Ukoh and recovered 32 pouches of Canadian Loud, a strain of Cannabis with a total weight of 15.63kg.

In Nasarawa State, NDLEA operatives on Saturday August 9, recovered a large consignment of skunk, a strain of cannabis weighing 3,093 kilograms from the trio of Emmanuel Asoquo Johnny, 51; Okem Raphael, 33, and Chekwube Odo, 25, at New Karu area of the state.

While 29-year-old Nura Yahaya was nabbed at Geza area of Kumbotso Kano State with 639 blocks of skunk weighing 359kg on Friday, August 8, another suspect, Umar Adamu Umar, 27, was taken into custody on Wednesday August 6th by NDLEA officers after seizing 9kg of Colorado, a synthetic strain of cannabis from him along Zaria-Kano Road, Kano.

Babafemi also said in another interdiction operation in Kano, 20,000 pills of tramadol and 200 ampoules of diazepam injection were recovered from a suspect Usman Musa, 30, at Gadar Tamburawa along Zaria-Kano road on Friday August 8.

Similarly, a raid at an uncompleted building located at Tudun Wadan Pantami in Gombe town, Gombe State on Friday August 8, led to the recovery of 550, 266 pills of opioids mainly tramadol while a suspect Usama Isah was arrested.

The following day, Saturday August 9, another suspect Ibrahim Adamu, 23, was arrested by NDLEA officers along Potiskum road, Bajoga with 50,000 capsules of tramadol.

In Edo state, a white Toyota Hiace bus marked YAB 5522 K coming from Onitsha Anambra and heading to Isanlu in Kogi was Wednesday, August 6, intercepted at Ewu junction, Edo by NDLEA operatives who after a search recovered 23, 940 capsules of tramadol, 1,100 tablets of same opioid and 400 ampoules of pentazocine injection with a suspect Taiye Jethro arrested.