{"id":1449,"date":"2022-11-15T10:55:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T09:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2022-11-15T10:55:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T09:55:35","slug":"alleged-drug-smuggling-ndlea-arrests-lagos-socialite-ademola-kazeem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/alleged-drug-smuggling-ndlea-arrests-lagos-socialite-ademola-kazeem\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Drug Smuggling: NDLEA Arrests\u00a0Lagos Socialite Ademola Kazeem."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested a Lagos socialite, Ademola Kazeem, few days after he was declared wanted for alleged illicit drug export and trafficking, including other crimes bordering around money laundering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was made known &nbsp;by Femi Babafemi, a spokesperson for the agency on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was declared wanted by the Agency &nbsp;&nbsp;after failing to comply with NDLEA invitations and an order granted by a federal high court in Lagos. The suspect was arrested Thursday 10 November 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-gbedd32\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e6 section-gbedd32 gutentor-element gutentor-element-image\"><div class=\"gutentor-element-image-box\"><div class=\"gutentor-image-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ndlea.jpg\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe wanted drug trafficker was discovered as the sponsor of some traffickers arrested by the anti-narcotics agency in their recent attempt to export cocaine to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates and other destinations outside of Nigeria,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHowever, the search for him paid off on Thursday, November 10 when he was successfully detained where he is currently being interviewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe was exposed &nbsp;&nbsp;after the arrest of one of his accomplice, Bolujoko Muyiwa Babalola, a BRT driver from Lagos on June 27 at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, when he named Alhaji Ademola Kazeem, alias Adekaz as the owner of the 900 grams.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The properties of the alleged drug trafficker located at Lagos Island an Oyo State respectively, has also been sealed by the agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested a Lagos socialite, Ademola Kazeem, few days after he was declared wanted for alleged illicit drug export and trafficking, including other crimes bordering around money laundering. This was made known &nbsp;by Femi Babafemi, a spokesperson for the agency on Sunday. He was declared&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}