NDLEA arrests suspected drug baron, seizes large consignment and foreign exchange in Lagos.

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Operatives of a Special Operations Unit of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested Frank Chijioke Ibemesi, alias Chisco Bee, a cunning drug baron who concealed his illicit activities behind a façade of legitimacy as a businessman and hotelier, subsequent to weeks of painstaking intelligence gathering and surveillance.
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Femi Babafemi, spokesperson NDLEA , in a statement revealed that 42-year-old businessman and MD/CEO of Franc CJ Ibemesi Nig Ltd, was apprehended at his Daisy Garden Hotel, located at 66-68 Agbeke street, Ago palace way, Isolo Lagos, in the early hours of Saturday, 15th November 2025. Following his arrest, he was taken to his warehouse at 7 Pius Ezeobi street off Ago palace way, Isolo, where 42 jumbo bags and four cartoons of Loud, a strain of cannabis weighing 1,762.8 kilograms, were seized. Additionally, $11,600 US dollars; 2,000 British Pounds; 2,200 Euros; and 50 Canadian dollars, all in cash, were confiscated from him at the point of arrest.

In a separate operation conducted in Lagos, two suspects, namely Jamiu Kunle Kardoso and Oriyomi Waliu, were apprehended on Friday, 14th November, with 130 pouches of Canadian Loud weighing 65.150kg in the Surulere area of Lagos. Similarly, Taofeek Moraina was arrested on the same day with 282 blocks of Ghana Loud, with a total weight of 141kg, in the Otto, Oyingbo area of Lagos.

In Osun State, operatives of the Agency foiled an attempt by a drug syndicate to load and distribute large quantities of processed skunk, a strain of cannabis, weighing a total of 11,135 kilograms, across the country, on Tuesday, 11th November, following days of surveillance in the Orita-Apeje, Araromi-Okeodo forest reserve, Ife South LGA. Two trucks, a Volvo truck marked WWR 29 XA and a Mercedes truck with registration number AWK 713 YZ, were seized, and seven suspects arrested in connection with the seizure, namely: Lucky Abiodun, Julius Amos, Victor Ngbikili, Sunday Oduegwu, Ibrahim Akanni, Eze Godstime, and Fred Ifeanyichukwu.

A total of 1,902.1 kilograms of skunk were recovered in parts of Edo state. While 184.1kg was recovered along a bush path at Oza/Igbanke road, Igbanke, in Orhionmwon LGA on Thursday 13th November, 672kg was evacuated from Utese forest, Ovia North East LGA on Friday 14th Nov, with 494kg recovered from a Mercedes Benz car marked DE311BEN along Benin-Akure road where a suspect Felix Edah, 45, was arrested same day, just as Lucky Abagha, 51, was nabbed in another Mercedes Benz car marked JJJ 56 JW conveying 552kg.

Reacting to the seizure of drugs and arrest made, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd), the newly reappointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, encouraged his operatives across the country to continue the ongoing balanced approach to the Agency’s drug control efforts.