Breaking: Lagos Socialite Wanted For Laundering And Drug Trafficking – NDLEA

Ademola Kazeem, a socialite from Lagos and the proprietor of Adekaz Hotels, has been declared sought by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for drug trafficking and money laundering.

Femi Babafemi, Director of Media and Advocacy for the NDLEA, stated that the suspect’s failure to honor invitations and an order issued to the agency by a Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday, October 17, 2022, led to the decision to proclaim him wanted.

According to the NDLEA, the suspect is a drug lord who has funded some of the traffickers who were recently apprehended while attempting to export cocaine to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, and other countries outside of Nigeria.

“Soon after the arrest of one of his mules, Bolujoko Muyiwa Babalola, a Lagos BRT driver on 27th June at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Alhaji Ademola Kazeem who is also the Chairman of Adekaz Global Integrated Services, went underground,” Babafemi said in a statement on Tuesday.

“Following his failure to honour invitations sent to him, the Agency approached a Federal High Court in Lagos with three prayers: to attach and seal his identified properties in Lagos and Ibadan; declare him wanted and block his bank account with a cash balance of Two Hundred and Seventeen Million Naira (N217,000,000.00), all of which were granted.

“As a result, NDLEA operatives on Wednesday 26th October 2022 sealed six of the identified properties located on Lagos Island. They include: 105 Tokunbo Street off Broad Street, Lagos Island; 1 Abibu Oki street off Marina, Lagos Island; 3 Abibu Oki street off Marina, Lagos Island; 54 Palm Church street, Lagos Island; 26 Agarawu street, Lagos Island; and 41 Foresythe street, Lagos Island. The other one is located at 1 Irepodun zone, Adepoju bus stop, Ajoda Ayedun, Ibadan, Oyo state.”

In a related development, the NDLEA said it arrested another drug baron, Udemezue William on Friday at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja upon his return from Brazil.