Men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a wanted female drug kingpin, Shodunke Yetunde Simbiat, following the recovery of 23.5 kilograms of cocaine concealed in her children’s room at her residence in Lagos.
The arrest comes about 20 months after NDLEA dismantled a cocaine trafficking syndicate operating across Lagos and Ogun states, leading to the arrest of two other kingpins, a couple identified as Bolanle Lookman Dauda and Olayinka Toheebat Dauda, in May 2024.
NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said the suspect had gone underground after the earlier arrests but was eventually tracked down through sustained intelligence and surveillance operations.
He recalled that Lookman and Toheebat Dauda were arrested on Saturday, May 25, 2024, by operatives of the NDLEA Special Operations Unit at Ibiye along the Lagos–Badagry Expressway while attempting to cross the land border to Ghana with a drug consignment.
In another operation, NDLEA officers at the Terminal Two departure hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, on Thursday, December 18, intercepted a 36-year-old businessman, Nwanwene Robinson Destiny, while attempting to board a Royal Air Maroc flight to Milan, Italy.
He was found with One thousand and twenty pills of tramadol 225mg and tapentadol 200mg concealed in his luggage.
