By our reporter
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it has arrested a General Overseer (GO), Prophet Adefolusho Aanu Olasele (alias Abbas Ajakaiye), of a Lagos-based church for alleged trafficking in prohibited hard drugs.
According to the agency, the GO had fled the country for months and abandoned his church, allegedly to escape arrest, when he knew of NDLEA’s sniffing around into his illegal involvements.
The agency said Olasele, who is GO of The Turn of Mercy Church, Ajah, was nabbed for masterminding multiple shipments of illicit drugs into Nigeria.
A statement by NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, today, disclosed that the GO was picked up at his church in Okun Ajah, Ogombo Road, Lekki, Lagos State, on Sunday, August 3, 2025, by its agents.
NDLEA added that the agents waited for Olasele from morning till evening so he could conclude the Sunday worship service before swooping on him as he stepped out of the church premises.
According to the agency, Prophet Olasele had evaded arrest twice and fled to Ghana since June when operatives started trailing him following the seizure of two shipments of Ghana Loud, a strain of cannabis linked to him.
Babafemi revealed that the initial seizure of 200kg of the psychoactive substance was made at Okun Ajah beach on June 4, 2025, while the second consignment of 700kg of same substance was recovered from a delivery van linked to him, on July 6, 2025.
NDLEA said in the GO’s statement, he allegedly admitted ferrying the illicit consignments through waterways from Ghana into Nigeria, adding that he fled to Ghana to hide after he escaped arrest twice in the recent past.
In another development, NDLEA stated that in Nasarawa State, its agents 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, on Saturday, August 9, 2025.
