The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has declared wanted, a couple, Kazeem Omogoriola Owoalade, aka Abdul Qassim Adisa Balogun, and Rashidat Ayinke Owoalade, aka Bolarinwa Rashidat Ayinke, who run a cocaine cartel from India.
In a statement on Sunday, spokesman of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, said the declaration follows the arrest of four members of what the agency labelled as their syndicate in Lagos.
According to Mr Babafemi, two members of the syndicate, one Imran Taofeek Olalekan and one Ishola Isiaka Olalekan, were arrested on 3rd of April this year following their bid to export 3.4kg of cocaine on a Qatar Airlines flight going to Oman through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.
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He added another member of the syndicate, Hamed Abimbola Saheed, who works directly with the head of the syndicate, was arrested on Tuesday 14th May at Abule Egba area of Lagos after five weeks of surveillance and follow up operations.
Hamed’s arrest led to a follow up operation at the home of the Owoalade couple at 20 Eyiaro street, Ogudu Orioke, Lagos, where another suspect was arrested and additional 400 grams of Cocaine recovered in addition to already prepared suitcases to be used for illicit drug concealment, digital weighing scales and other paraphernalia.
