The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Wednesday announced the arrest of a leader of the Mushin, Lagos drug cartel known as Sulaiman Jimoh aka Temo.
The agency stated that Temo, who had been on the agency’s wanted list, had been evading arrest until he was eventually nabbed.
In a statement on Wednesday, the NDLEA ‘s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi disclosed that Temo was nabbed at his hideout along with his men.
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He said, “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, popularly known as Temo), has been arrested by operatives of the NDLEA, at his enclave after an initial resistance from him and his horde of hoodlums.”
Narrating how Temo was arrested, Babafemi said the NDLEA ‘s surveillance team tracked him to Igbarere Street in Mushin and was pinned down on July 22.
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Babafemi also stated that operatives of the NDLEA had seized drugs worth billions of naira from Temo.
Babafemi said, “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: 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 a gunfight.”
He said the team immediately called for a reinforcement of 50 operatives when he tried to escape.
Babafemi said the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (retd) commended the officers and men of the Lagos State Command, Special Monitoring Task Force, and other formations for Temo’s arrest.
