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According to Kingsley Omonobi
Four members of an Indian drug ring were apprehended in Lagos by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The ring’s sports utility vehicle and two homes were already marked for forfeiture by the federal government.
Also wanted by the NDLEA for their roles in the cocaine trafficking are a couple known as Kazeem Omogoriola Owoalade (also known as Abdul Qassim Adisa Balogun) and Rashidat Ayinke Owoalade (also known as Bolarinwa Rashidat Ayinke).
Two other members of the syndicate, Imran Taofeek Olalekan and Ishola Isiaka Olalekan, were apprehended on April 3, 2024, after attempting to export 3.40 kg of cocaine on a Qatar Airlines flight bound for Oman via Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos, according to the agency spokesman, Femi Babafemi.
According to the inquiry, Alhaji Kazeem Omogoriola Owoalade, whose Indian resident permit is in the name of Abdul Qassim Adisa Balogun, is the head of the cartel. Imran was recruited by Ishola while he was a courier transporting the drug shipment to Oman.
Hamed Abimbola Saheed, a member of the syndicate who works directly with the baron, was detained on Tuesday, May 14th, in the Abule Egba district of Lagos, marking the successful culmination of five weeks of surveillance and follow-up operations aimed at dismantling his network in Nigeria.
Saheed did, in fact, leave Imran and Ishola at the Lagos airport on the day of their arrest; he had also booked a hotel for Imran the day before his ill-fated journey to Oman.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) seized 900 grams of phenacetine—a cocaine cutting agent—during a search of Hamed’s residence.
The seized material, he admitted, was the remnants of the shipment Imran was transporting to Oman on the day of his detention.