NDLEA arrests Lagos socialite, Nollywood filmmaker over drug shipments

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a wanted drug kingpin and Lagos socialite, 61-year-old Alhaja Aishat Feyisara Ajoke Elediye.

Spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in a statement in Abuja, said the suspect was arrested on Wednesday, January 1, 2025 in her mansion at Okota area of Lagos following the interception of a truckload illicit drug consignment from her staff same day.

“Known in the drug underworld as ‘Iya Ruka’, Alhaja Ajoke as she is fondly called in social circle, has her true identity shrouded in mystery for years while she remained on the wanted list of NDLEA for leading one of the drug cartels operating from Mushin area of Lagos.

“The lid was however blown off her invincibility on Wednesday when NDLEA operatives acting on intelligence intercepted a white Izuzu truck carrying 44 jumbo sacks containing 1,540kgs of imported cannabis and driven by one of her staff, 41-year-old Abideen Adio,” Babafemi said.

He said that thereafter, the operatives stormed her hideout on Adebayo Oyewole Street, off Ago Palace Way, Okota, where they arrested her.

“On the surface, Alhaja Ajoke is a businesswoman who imports fabrics and shoes from China but beneath is a massive illicit drug trade.

“She is also recognized as the Iyalaje of Blessing Sisters, an influential club of society women in Lagos,” Babafemi added.

In another major operation, NDLEA officers on Friday, December 27, 2024 arrested a US-trained Hollywood and Nollywood filmmaker, Emeka Emmanuel Mbadiwe, who is also a motivational speaker at his Lekki hotel room.

His partner, Uzoekwe Ugochukwu James, had been arrested earlier that day at a warehouse in Ajao Estate, Ikeja, where he was sent by Mbadiwe to collect a shipment of 33 parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis weighing 17.30kgs concealed in large wooden boxes, which arrived the import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, on December 24 2024, from the United States on a Delta Airline flight.

 

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