The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has declared wanted a Lagos socialite and owner of Adekaz Hotels, Alhaji Ademola Afolabi Kazeem, alias Alhaji Abdallah Kazeem Muhammed, over offences bordering on exportation and trafficking of illicit drugs, as well as money laundering.
The decision to declare the suspect wanted followed his failure to honour NDLEA’s invitations and an order granted the agency by a Federal High Court, Lagos, on Monday, October 17, 2022.
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A spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, on Tuesday, said that the wanted drug kingpin was uncovered as the sponsor of traffickers arrested by the anti-narcotics agency while attempting to export cocaine to Dubai, UAE, and other destinations outside Nigeria.
He said, “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
“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 N217m, all of which were granted.”
He further said that NDLEA operatives, on Wednesday, October 26, 2022, sealed six of the identified properties located on Lagos Island, including 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, and 1 Irepodun Zone, Adepoju Bus Stop, Ajoda Ayedun, Ibadan, Oyo State.
