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Top Lagos Politician Caught With Cocaine At Lagos Airport by 00FFT00(m): 9:11pm On May 12, 2021
Mr Asekun was a London based baron and a politician who “was at different times between 2004 and 2014 the vice-chairman of Lagos Island East LCDA.

A former vice-chairman of Lagos-Island East Council Development Area, Asekun Kehinde Sakiru, has been apprehended by operatives of the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for drug trafficking.

This is according to a statement issued by the NDLEA on Wednesday and signed by its spokesman Femi Babafemi.

The statement disclosed that Mr Asekun was on May 7, at about 9:40 p.m., intercepted at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos while trying to take a Virgin Atlantic flight to London, UK.

The agency also revealed that “Asekun had been on the wanted list of the MMIA Command of the Agency in connection to a case involving one Azeez Adeniyi Ibrahim who was arrested with 6.45kg of cocaine in December 2020.”

It stated further that: “At the point of his arrest, Asekun was caught with a kilogramme of cocaine concealed in five pairs of palm slippers packed inside his suitcase.”

Mr Asekun was a London based baron and a politician who “was at different times between 2004 and 2014 the vice-chairman of Lagos Island East LCDA. He had also contested and lost elections for house of representatives in 2007 and Lagos state house of assembly in 2015.”

Before then, Mr Asekun was in 2011 a member of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) when he coordinated security for the LCDA elections in Lagos.

The suspect claims to be an international automobile dealer in his statement to the anti-drug trafficking organization. The agency however said it was yet to verify his source of wealth from its investigation so far, it further added that, “in the course of tracking him, the sum of N131 million was seized from his account, and another N14 million also blocked in the account of one of his traffickers, Azeez Adeniyi Ibrahim, bringing the total sum so far recovered from him to N145 million.”

Chairman of the agency, Buba Marwa, while commending its officers reiterated the agency’s commitment in the fight against drug trafficking in the country.

NDLEA has ramped up his bust up of drug markets and cartels since the appointment of Mr Marwa in January. The agency has also made outlandish announcements of drug interception amid arrests.

“This arrest is yet another message and red alert to those still in this criminal trade, whether as barons or traffickers, that they will soon enter the dragnet of the Agency, daily being spread across the country, if they fail to back out especially now that we are moving all out for the barons and the big cartels while we continue to rein in the traffickers,” the NDLEA boss warned.

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Re: Top Lagos Politician Caught With Cocaine At Lagos Airport by iammo(m): 9:16pm On May 12, 2021
Buba Marwa is not smiling, almost every week multiple arrest
Re: Top Lagos Politician Caught With Cocaine At Lagos Airport by mayklef(m): 9:31pm On May 12, 2021
Tinubu boys....he will soon be released
Re: Top Lagos Politician Caught With Cocaine At Lagos Airport by viyon02: 9:32pm On May 12, 2021
This dude is just a carrier, he shouldn't be exposed in this manner, the best is to track and monitor him to the cartel main base: don't be surprised that the boss will be another strong politician in Lagos(The frog eyes devil). But getting just one Carrier is nothing but wast of time because we have many carriers that will replace him. Getting the boss is the main deal.
Re: Top Lagos Politician Caught With Cocaine At Lagos Airport by gasparpisciotta: 9:46pm On May 12, 2021
During the Buhari‘s regime as a military dictator, this man would have been executed at the Lagos bar beach

Re: Top Lagos Politician Caught With Cocaine At Lagos Airport by mysticwarrior(m): 9:50pm On May 12, 2021
Na them
Re: Top Lagos Politician Caught With Cocaine At Lagos Airport by Nobody: 9:56pm On May 12, 2021
I laugh coronally,
Our politifcianc are drug dealers....
Nothing wey we no go see for Nigerian government
Re: Top Lagos Politician Caught With Cocaine At Lagos Airport by Mynd44: 6:42am On May 13, 2021

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