Prophet Adefolusho Olasele, also known as Abbas Ajakaiye, the founder and general overseer of The Turn of Mercy Church. He was arrested by the National narcotics Law Enforcement Agency on suspicion of being involved in several illegal narcotics shipments from Ghana to Nigeria.
After months of evasion, Olasele was finally caught on Sunday, August 3, 2025, in his church in Okun Ajah, Lekki, Lagos.
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Femi Babafemi, the agency’s spokesperson, said in a statement on Sunday that officers arrested him as he left the building after waiting until the conclusion of the Sunday service.
The general overseer (also known as Abbas Ajakaiye) was apprehended for orchestrating several narcotics shipments into Nigeria after months of escaping to avoid capture overseas.
“Prophet Adefolusho was arrested at his church located in Okun Ajah, Ogombo Road, Lekki area of Lagos on Sunday, August 3, 2025, by the NDLEA officers who waited for him since morning to conclude the Sunday worship service in the evening before moving in on him the moment he stepped out of the church premises.
“The arrest came after he had evaded arrest twice and fled to Ghana to hide since June when operatives started trailing him following the seizure of two shipments of Ghana Loud, a strain of cannabis linked to him. The first seizure of 200kg of the psychoactive substance was made at the Okun Ajah beach on June 4, 2025, while another consignment of 700kg of the same substance was recovered from his delivery van on July 6, 2025.”
In his statement, Babafemi claimed the general overseer confessed to ferrying the consignments via waterways from Ghana.
He said, “In his statement, he admitted ferrying the illicit consignments through the waterways from Ghana into Nigeria, adding that he had fled to the West African country to hide after he escaped arrest twice in the recent past.”
In a separate operation in Lagos on Thursday, Babafemi also stated that the NDLEA operatives raided an apartment at the Parkview Estate, Ikoyi, where they arrested Benjamin Ukoh and recovered 32 pouches of Canadian Loud, weighing 15.63kg.
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“In Nasarawa State, the NDLEA operatives on Saturday, August 9, recovered a large consignment of skunk, a strain of cannabis weighing 3,093 kilograms, from the trio of Emmanuel Asoquo Johnny, 51; Okem Raphael, 33, and Chekwube Odo, 25, at the New Karu area of the state.
“While 29-year-old Nura Yahaya was nabbed at Geza area of Kumbotso Kano State with 639 blocks of skunk weighing 359kg on Friday, August 8, another suspect Umar Adamu Umar, 27, was taken into custody on Wednesday, August 6, by the NDLEA officers after seizing 9kg of Colorado, a synthetic strain of cannabis from him along Zaria-Kano Road, Kano,” the statement added.
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