August 11, 2025 • 6 mins
NDLEA Arrests Pastor After Church Service For Cross Border Drug Trafficking
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#NDLEA #Ajah #Gombe #Lagos #Okun ©August 11th, 2025 ®August 11, 2025 4:37 pm Nigeria anti illicit drug authority, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has arrested a Pastor, Prophet Adefolusho Aanu Olasele a.k.a Abbas Ajakaiye, the General Overseer of The Turn of Mercy Church after waiting almost throughout all day for the Pastor to conclude his Church service before being taking away over alleged crime of cross border drug trafficking of masterminding the shipments of multiple illicit drugs from Ghana and other countries into Nigeria. #OsazuwaAkonedo
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#NDLEA #Ajah #Gombe #Lagos #Okun ©August 11th, 2025 ®August 11, 2025 4:37 pm Nigeria anti illicit drug authority, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has arrested a Pastor, Prophet Adefolusho Aanu Olasele a.k.a Abbas Ajakaiye, the General Overseer of The Turn of Mercy Church after waiting almost throughout all day for the Pastor to conclude his Church service before being taking away over alleged crime of cross border drug trafficking of masterminding the shipments of multiple illicit drugs from Ghana and other countries into Nigeria. #OsazuwaAkonedo
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nigeria Anti Illicit Drug Authority, the National Drug Law Enforcement
Agency NDLA, has arrested a pastor, Prophet Adife Lashoano olisel
A Ka Abbess Ajakaya, the General overseer of the Turn
of Mercy Church, after waiting almost throughout all day for
the pastor to conclude his church service before being taken
(00:20):
away over alleged crime of cross border drug trafficking of
masterminding the shipments of multiple illicit drugs from Ghana and
other countries into Nigeria. According to NDLA, the pastor has
been on the wanted list of the agency for months
after he allegedly fled the country to hide in Ghana. NDLA,
in a new statement on Sunday, said that luck ran
(00:43):
out on the pastor when he returned to Nigeria and
was arrested at the church premises after he stepped out
at the end of the church service on Sunday, August third,
twenty twenty five in Lagos State. NDLA said it also
recovered three thousand, four hundred and seventy six six kilograms
Colorado laud skunk, six hundred and forty five thousand, nine
(01:06):
hundred and six pills of opioids in Nasarawa, Carno, Lagos,
gombe Edo during raids. Details of the news reporter presented
verbatum below. After months of fleeing abroad to evade arrest,
the founder and general overseer of the Turn of Mercy Church,
Prophet Adefe Lacher Arnu Olasele alias Abessadja Kaye, has been
(01:28):
arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency
endy l EA for masterminding multiple shipments of illicit drugs
into Nigeria. Prophet Adefelascher was arrested at his church located
in Okanaja A Gombo Road, Lecky area of Lagos on Sunday,
the third of August twenty twenty five by n d
(01:49):
l e A offices who waited for him since morning
to conclude the Sunday worship service in the evening before
moving in on him the moment he stepped out of
the church premises. The arrest came after he had evaded
arrest twice and fled to Ghana to hide since June,
when operatives started trailing him following the seizure of two
shipments of gharan allowed a strain of cannabis linked to him.
(02:12):
The first seizure of two hundred kilograms of the psychoactive
substance was made at Okanaja Beach on the fourth of
June twenty twenty five, while another consignment of seven hundred
kilograms of saint substance was recovered from his delivery van
on the sixth of July twenty twenty five. In his statement,
he admitted ferrying the illicit consignments through the waterways from
(02:34):
Ganer 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, ndl
EA operatives on Thursday the seventh of August raided an
apartment at Kishi House eleven lay a Ja Bembey Street,
Park Viewers, STATACOI, where they arrested a suspect, Benjamin Udo
(02:57):
a Coe and recovered thirty two pouches of Canadian Life,
a strain of cannabis, with a total weight of fifteen
point six three kilograms. In Nasarawa State, ndl EA operatives
on Saturday the ninth of August recovered a large consignment
of Skunk, a strain of cannabis weighing three thousand and
ninety three kilograms from the trio of Emmanuel Lesokuo Johnny
(03:20):
fifty one, Oakum Raphael thirty three and Czekubodo twenty five,
a New Karu area of the state, while twenty nine
year old Nura Yuhaya was nabbed at Pisa area of
Cambotso Carno State with six hundred and thirty nine blocks
of skunk weighing three hundred and fifty nine kilograms on Friday,
(03:40):
the eighth of August. Another suspect to Umar Damuhumar twenty
seven was taken into custody on Wednesday, the sixth of
August by NDLA offices after seizing nine kilograms of Colorado,
a synthetic strain of cannabis from him Alongzaria Krno Road KRNO.
In another addiction operation in Krno, twenty thousand pills of
(04:03):
tramadol and two hundred amples of diazepam injection were recovered
from a suspect of Sman Musa thirty at Gadda Tambarawa
Alongsaria Krno Road on Friday the eighth of August a
raided and uncompleted building located at Tudenwaden Pantomi in Gombe Town,
Gombe State, on Friday, the eighth of August led to
(04:23):
the recovery of five hundred and fifty two hundred and
sixty six pills of opioid's, mainly tramadol, while a suspect,
A sama Isa, was arrested. The following day, Saturday, the
ninth of August, another suspect, Ibrahima Damu twenty three, was
arrested by NDL EA offices along Patiscum Road, Badjogowit fifty
(04:45):
thousand capsules of tramadol. In Edo State. A white Toyota
hyes bus marked WYEB five thousand, five hundred and twenty
two k, coming from a Nisha and Amra and heading
to asan Lu in Koggi, was Wednesday the sixth of
August inter apted at Ewu Junction Heado by NDLA operatives
who after a search recovered twenty three, nine hundred and
(05:07):
forty capsules of tramadol, one thousand, one hundred tablets of
same opioid and four hundred amples of pentezosine injection, with
the suspect Taie Jethro arrested in like manner commands and
formations of the agency across the country continued their war
against drug abuse WADA sensitization activities to schools, worship centers,
(05:29):
workplaces and communities among others. In the past week. These
include WADA Enlightenment lecture to students and staff of Mines
City College, Saki Oyo, Guaguawa Primary School, Nasarawa Local Government
Area Karno, offices of the Nigerian Army, two hundred and
forty one Reki Model Battalion, Inguru, Yobe, members of Engine
(05:53):
Grinders Association Igboco Bunu, while the Achitti State Command of
NDL e A paid WADA advocacy visit to the Nigerian
Correctional Service in Adua Kittee, just as the Enamra State
Command of the agency paid a similar WADER advocacy visit
to the Speaker of the State House of Assembly. While
(06:13):
commending the offices and men of the Lagos, Nasarawa, Gombe,
Krno and Edo Commands for the arrests Sieges and the
Dexterity Chairman, Chief Executive Officer of NDLA, Brigadier General Mohammad
Baba Bahwa retired and joined them and their colleagues across
the country to continue with the ongoing balanced approach to
(06:35):
the drug control efforts of the agency. Femi Baba Femi,
Director Media and Advocacy, Ndlea stated this on Sunday, the
tenth of August twenty twenty five. Ledi Quindi Bini in
amagial
Nigeria Anti Illicit Drug Authority, the National Drug Law Enforcement
Agency NDLA, has arrested a pastor, Prophet Adife Lashoano olisel
A Ka Abbess Ajakaya, the General overseer of the Turn
of Mercy Church, after waiting almost throughout all day for
the pastor to conclude his church service before being taken
(00:20):
away over alleged crime of cross border drug trafficking of
masterminding the shipments of multiple illicit drugs from Ghana and
other countries into Nigeria. According to NDLA, the pastor has
been on the wanted list of the agency for months
after he allegedly fled the country to hide in Ghana. NDLA,
in a new statement on Sunday, said that luck ran
(00:43):
out on the pastor when he returned to Nigeria and
was arrested at the church premises after he stepped out
at the end of the church service on Sunday, August third,
twenty twenty five in Lagos State. NDLA said it also
recovered three thousand, four hundred and seventy six six kilograms
Colorado laud skunk, six hundred and forty five thousand, nine
(01:06):
hundred and six pills of opioids in Nasarawa, Carno, Lagos,
gombe Edo during raids. Details of the news reporter presented
verbatum below. After months of fleeing abroad to evade arrest,
the founder and general overseer of the Turn of Mercy Church,
Prophet Adefe Lacher Arnu Olasele alias Abessadja Kaye, has been
(01:28):
arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency
endy l EA for masterminding multiple shipments of illicit drugs
into Nigeria. Prophet Adefelascher was arrested at his church located
in Okanaja A Gombo Road, Lecky area of Lagos on Sunday,
the third of August twenty twenty five by n d
(01:49):
l e A offices who waited for him since morning
to conclude the Sunday worship service in the evening before
moving in on him the moment he stepped out of
the church premises. The arrest came after he had evaded
arrest twice and fled to Ghana to hide since June,
when operatives started trailing him following the seizure of two
shipments of gharan allowed a strain of cannabis linked to him.
(02:12):
The first seizure of two hundred kilograms of the psychoactive
substance was made at Okanaja Beach on the fourth of
June twenty twenty five, while another consignment of seven hundred
kilograms of saint substance was recovered from his delivery van
on the sixth of July twenty twenty five. In his statement,
he admitted ferrying the illicit consignments through the waterways from
(02:34):
Ganer 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, ndl
EA operatives on Thursday the seventh of August raided an
apartment at Kishi House eleven lay a Ja Bembey Street,
Park Viewers, STATACOI, where they arrested a suspect, Benjamin Udo
(02:57):
a Coe and recovered thirty two pouches of Canadian Life,
a strain of cannabis, with a total weight of fifteen
point six three kilograms. In Nasarawa State, ndl EA operatives
on Saturday the ninth of August recovered a large consignment
of Skunk, a strain of cannabis weighing three thousand and
ninety three kilograms from the trio of Emmanuel Lesokuo Johnny
(03:20):
fifty one, Oakum Raphael thirty three and Czekubodo twenty five,
a New Karu area of the state, while twenty nine
year old Nura Yuhaya was nabbed at Pisa area of
Cambotso Carno State with six hundred and thirty nine blocks
of skunk weighing three hundred and fifty nine kilograms on Friday,
(03:40):
the eighth of August. Another suspect to Umar Damuhumar twenty
seven was taken into custody on Wednesday, the sixth of
August by NDLA offices after seizing nine kilograms of Colorado,
a synthetic strain of cannabis from him Alongzaria Krno Road KRNO.
In another addiction operation in Krno, twenty thousand pills of
(04:03):
tramadol and two hundred amples of diazepam injection were recovered
from a suspect of Sman Musa thirty at Gadda Tambarawa
Alongsaria Krno Road on Friday the eighth of August a
raided and uncompleted building located at Tudenwaden Pantomi in Gombe Town,
Gombe State, on Friday, the eighth of August led to
(04:23):
the recovery of five hundred and fifty two hundred and
sixty six pills of opioid's, mainly tramadol, while a suspect,
A sama Isa, was arrested. The following day, Saturday, the
ninth of August, another suspect, Ibrahima Damu twenty three, was
arrested by NDL EA offices along Patiscum Road, Badjogowit fifty
(04:45):
thousand capsules of tramadol. In Edo State. A white Toyota
hyes bus marked WYEB five thousand, five hundred and twenty
two k, coming from a Nisha and Amra and heading
to asan Lu in Koggi, was Wednesday the sixth of
August inter apted at Ewu Junction Heado by NDLA operatives
who after a search recovered twenty three, nine hundred and
(05:07):
forty capsules of tramadol, one thousand, one hundred tablets of
same opioid and four hundred amples of pentezosine injection, with
the suspect Taie Jethro arrested in like manner commands and
formations of the agency across the country continued their war
against drug abuse WADA sensitization activities to schools, worship centers,
(05:29):
workplaces and communities among others. In the past week. These
include WADA Enlightenment lecture to students and staff of Mines
City College, Saki Oyo, Guaguawa Primary School, Nasarawa Local Government
Area Karno, offices of the Nigerian Army, two hundred and
forty one Reki Model Battalion, Inguru, Yobe, members of Engine
(05:53):
Grinders Association Igboco Bunu, while the Achitti State Command of
NDL e A paid WADA advocacy visit to the Nigerian
Correctional Service in Adua Kittee, just as the Enamra State
Command of the agency paid a similar WADER advocacy visit
to the Speaker of the State House of Assembly. While
(06:13):
commending the offices and men of the Lagos, Nasarawa, Gombe,
Krno and Edo Commands for the arrests Sieges and the
Dexterity Chairman, Chief Executive Officer of NDLA, Brigadier General Mohammad
Baba Bahwa retired and joined them and their colleagues across
the country to continue with the ongoing balanced approach to
(06:35):
the drug control efforts of the agency. Femi Baba Femi,
Director Media and Advocacy, Ndlea stated this on Sunday, the
tenth of August twenty twenty five. Ledi Quindi Bini in
amagial
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