Lagos drug dealer escapes after crushing NDLEA official

Lagos drug dealer escapes after crushing NDLEA official 

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has launched a manhunt for a suspected drug dealer identified as Sowunmi Ayodeji Kayode.

Kayode was said to have crushed an NDLEA operative while evading arrest in the Lekki area of Lagos.

The agency in a statement signed by its spokesman, Femi Babafemi, on Wednesday said Kayode knocked down the agency’s operative during a search of his house on August 18, 2023.

It said the NDLEA recovered 10.5kg of ‘loud’ weed in Kayode’s apartment.

Part of the statement read, “Anti-narcotics officers of the agency on Friday 18th August stormed the residence of the wanted drug dealer located at 2/3 Adetola Ayeni close, Lekki, Lagos for a search and possible arrest following credible intelligence that he was dealing in illicit drugs in his house.

“Although he was not in the house when operatives got into his compound, he however returned while a search of his apartment was ongoing.

“In a dramatic twist, as soon as he drove into the premises and sighted NDLEA officers, he engaged his car in reverse gear, knocked down one of the officers, pulled down his gate before plunging the vehicle into the fence of the opposite compound.

“The force of his car’s speed also pulled down the concrete wall of his neighbours compound and from there he dived out of the vehicle to escape.”