Alhaji Ademola Kazeem, a fleeing Lagos socialite, and owner of Adekaz Hotels was arrested ten days after he had been declared wanted. He was charged with exporting and trafficking illicit drugs and money laundering.

On Tuesday, November 1, the Agency declared the suspect wanted after he failed to honor NDLEA invitations and an order granted by a Federal High Court in Lagos.

The anti-narcotics agent discovered that the wanted drug kingpin was the sponsor of traffickers who attempted to export cocaine to Dubai, UAE, and other countries outside Nigeria.

The spokesperson of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, November 13, said the search for him however paid off on Thursday 10th Nov when he was successfully taken into custody where he is currently being interviewed.

His lid was blown open after the arrest of one of his mules, Bolujoko Muyiwa Babalola, a Lagos BRT driver on 27th June at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, when he named Alhaji Ademola Kazeem, alias Adekaz as the owner of the 900grams of cocaine he ingested.

Following Adekazs failure to honor invitations sent to him, the Agency approached a Federal High Court in Lagos with three prayers: to attach and seal his identified properties in choice areas of Lagos island and Ibadan; declare him wanted and block his bank account with a cash balance of Two Hundred and Seventeen Million Naira (N217,000,000.00), all of which were granted.

While commending the officers and men of the MMIA Command of the Agency for the successful operations in the past week, Chairman of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa urged them and their counterparts across the country to intensify the heat on drug barons and cartels.