Chai! NDLEA Nabs G.O For Alleged Cross-Border Drug Trafficking
Lagos (Core Reporters) ‘Money they say is the root of evil’ the founder and general overseer of a church in Lagos State, Nigeria, Adefolusho Olasele, (aka Abbas Ajakaiye) has just been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over his alleged role in multiple shipments of illicit drugs from Ghana to Nigeria, two West African countries.
NDLEA’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement, saying Olasele had been on the run for months, and was eventually arrested on Sunday, August 10, 2025 at his church in the Okun Ajah area of Lekki, Lagos.
According to the statement, the operatives waited until the end of the Sunday service before arresting him as he stepped out of the premises.
Babafemi in the statement noted that the pastor had fled to Ghana in June to evade arrest after operatives linked him to two cannabis seizures — 200kg recovered at Okun Ajah Beach on June 4 and 700kg found in his delivery van on July 6.
The statement reads in parts, “After months of fleeing abroad to evade arrest, the Founder and General Overseer of The Turn of Mercy Church, Prophet Adefolusho Aanu Olasele (alias Abbas Ajakaiye) has been arrested for masterminding multiple shipments of illicit drugs into Nigeria.
“Prophet Adefolusho was arrested at his church located in Okun Ajah, Ogombo road, Lekki area of Lagos on Sunday, August 3, 2025 by NDLEA officers who had been waiting 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 Ghana Loud, a strain of cannabis linked to him. The first seizure of 200kg of the psychoactive substance was made at Okun Ajah beach on June 4, 2025, while another consignment of 700kg of the same substance was recovered from his delivery van on July 6, 2025,” the statement partly read.
Source: Sahara Reporters
