Lawal Oyenuga, a 56-year-old drug trafficker, was apprehended on Sunday by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
Oyenuga was on a mission to deliver 400 grams of the class A drug concealed in a pair of palm sandals in the city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. The sandals were found in the suspect’s possession.
Oyenuga, a member of a significant cocaine trafficking organization in Lagos, was apprehended at the airport’s security checkpoint in Ikeja, Lagos.
Wasiu Sanni, commonly known as “Teacher,” a wanted criminal kingpin, was also quickly apprehended at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on November 24. This information was provided by Mr. Femi Babafemi, Director of Media and Advocacy for the NDLEA.
He added that a careful inspection of the sandals showed they had been used to conceal two packages of 400 grams of cocaine.
Babafemi said:
The NDLEA operatives attached to the screening point of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, had on Thursday, November 24, intercepted Lawal Oyenuga with a pair of black palm sandals packed in the luggage he was going with to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia via Addis Ababa on an Ethiopian Airways flight.
A thorough examination of the sandals revealed they were used to conceal two parcels of cocaine weighing 400 grams. This is barely a week after a 56-year-old widow and mother of four, Ajisegiri Sidika, was arrested at the airport over her attempt to traffic 400 grams of cocaine concealed in her footwear to Makkah, Saudi Arabia, on board a Qatar Airways flight.”
According to Oyenuga’s statement, Wasiu Gbolahan, also known as Teacher, recruited him to traffic the drug. He also claimed that at first, he was given some cocaine pellets to swallow; however, when he was unable to do so, he was then given the ones hidden in the palm sandals. He claimed that in order to raise money for his daughter’s Senior Secondary School class 3 test cost, he turned to the criminal underworld.
In addition, he was Gbolahan previously identified as the person who hired a BRT driver, Bolajoko Babalola, for Lagos socialite and owner of the Adekaz Hotels, Alhaji Ademola Kazeem, aka Alhaji Abdallah Kazeem Muhammed, to traffic drugs to Dubai.
According to Babafemi, who claimed that the agency’s database revealed that Gbolahan had been linked to some previous attempts to traffic cocaine to Saudi Arabia and Dubai, and UAE.