80-year-old man, community leader’s wives, son arrested for drug dealing

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested the wives and a son of a community leader and Sarkin Yamma of Badagry West LCDA in Lagos State, Bashir Mohammed Talba, for alleged drug dealing.

The community leader’s wives and son were arrested after Talba’s two homes in Lagos were raided by the NDLEA operatives on Wednesday, September 18, 2024.

The spokesperson for the anti-drug agency, Femi Babafemi, who made this known in a statement on Sunday, September 22, disclosed that 226kg of cannabis was recovered from the women and man.

Babafemi noted that though Talba is currently at large, a search of his house in the Ashipa area of Seme Badagry led to the recovery of 93 compressed blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 57.6kg from his first wife, 35-year-old Asma’u Bashiru, and 22-year-old son, Sadat Bashiru.

He said another search of the community leader’s house in the Aketegbo area of Seme Badagry led to the seizure of 302 compressed blocks of cannabis weighing 168.6kg from his second wife 42-year-old Hauwa Bashir.

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Babafemi added that operatives of the Lagos State Strategic Command of the NDLEA, on Friday, September 20, arrested an 80-year-old man, Aremu Shojobi, with 14 kilograms of cannabis at his home in the Iyana Ipaja area of the state.

The NDLEA spokesman stated that the octogenarian, in his statement, claimed he has been in the business of selling illicit drugs for 25 years.

Babafemi noted that Shojobi further claimed he got his supplies from Benin Republic and sold them to his customers from his residence between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. every day.

He further disclosed that the NDLEA officers recovered 720 blocks of Arizona, a strain of cannabis weighing 390kg, from a Mitsubishi delivery van marked MUS 720 XH in the Ojo area of Lagos State on Monday, September 16.

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