The 42-year-old Ibemesi, who is the MD/CEO of Franc CJ Ibemesi Nig. Ltd., was arrested at his Daisy Garden Hotel, 66–68 Agbeke Street, Ago Palace Way, Isolo, Lagos, in the early hours of Saturday, November 15, 2025.A statement by the Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, said that after his arrest, he was taken to his warehouse at 7 Pius Ezeobi Street, off Ago Palace Way, Isolo, where 42 jumbo bags and four cartons of Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 1,762.8 kilograms, were recovered. Also seized from him at the point of arrest were $11,600, 2,000 British pounds, 2,200 euros, and 50 Canadian dollars in cash.
An attempt by a drug syndicate operating at Orita-Apeje, Araromi-Okeodo forest reserve, Ife South LGA, Osun State, to load and distribute large quantities of processed skunk, weighing a total of 11,135 kilograms, was thwarted on Tuesday, November 11, after days of surveillance. Two trucks used for transporting the illicit drugs — a Volvo truck marked WWR 29 XA and a Mercedes truck with registration number AWK 713 YZ — were seized, and seven suspects arrested: Lucky Abiodun; Julius Amos; Victor Ngbikili; Sunday Oduegwu; Ibrahim Akanni; Eze Godstime; and Fred Ifeanyichukwu.
A total of 1,902.1 kilograms of skunk was recovered in parts of Edo State. While 184.1 kg was recovered along a bush path at Oza/Igbanke road in Orhionmwon LGA on Thursday, November 13, another 672 kg was evacuated from Utese forest in Ovia North East LGA on Friday, November 14. Also, 494 kg was recovered from a Mercedes-Benz car marked DE311BEN along the Benin–Akure road, where a suspect, Felix Edah, 45, was arrested. In a similar operation, Lucky Abagha, 51, was arrested in another Mercedes-Benz car marked JJJ 56 JW with 552 kg.
Four suspects — Micheal Okoh, Offor Agada, Raphael Nkemjika and Nwabueze Franklin — were arrested with 68 kg of skunk and 3.150 kg of methamphetamine along the Ijebu-Ode expressway in Ogun State. In Taraba State, Danjuma Tukura, 50, was arrested with 172 kg of skunk in the Sunkani area of Ardo Kola LGA on Friday, November 14, while Wisdom Titus, 24, was arrested with 84 kg in Takum.
In Adamawa State, operatives recovered 396,000 capsules of tramadol from a suspect, Ahmed Isyaku Nda, 50, at Aliyu Mustapha International Airport, Yola, on Friday, November 14. Meanwhile, 785 kg of skunk was evacuated from the warehouse of a drug dealer currently at large in Asob Maraba Karu, Nasarawa State.
Two suspects, Jamiu Kunle Kardoso and Oriyomi Waliu, were arrested on Friday, November 14, with 130 pouches of Canadian Loud weighing 65.150 kg in Surulere, Lagos. On the same day, Taofeek Moraina was arrested with 282 blocks of Ghana Loud weighing 141 kg at Otto, Oyingbo, Lagos. In Kwara State, NDLEA operatives on Thursday, November 13 intercepted a truck marked T-0262KT along the Ilorin–Jebba expressway conveying 197 blocks of skunk weighing 78.565 kg and 155 cartons of rubber solutions. The truck driver, Umar Yakubu, was arrested. In another operation, a commercial bus with registration number KJA-657CY was intercepted at Eiyenkorin, Ilorin, on Wednesday, November 12, with 20 blocks of skunk concealed in a 50-litre jerrycan, and the driver, Ibrahim Bello, arrested.
Commands and formations of the Agency across the country also continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities in schools, worship centres, workplaces and communities. These included lectures at Government Day Secondary School, Birnin Ruwa, Zamfara; Holy Ghost Secondary School, Abakaliki, Ebonyi; Government Science Technical School, Ringim, Jigawa; City Girls Secondary School, Enugu; Randle Junior Secondary School, Surulere, Lagos; and Anglican Girls Grammar School, Obalende, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State.While commending the officers and men of the SOU, Osun, Lagos, Edo, Ogun, Taraba, Adamawa, Nasarawa and Kwara Commands for the arrests and seizures, NDLEA Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Marwa (rtd), urged them and their colleagues nationwide to sustain the balanced approach to drug control efforts.
Source: https://thesun.ng/
