Breaking: EFCC Nabs General Overseer Over Alleged Illicit Drugs

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested the founder and General Overseer of The Turn of Mercy Church, Prophet Adefolusho Olasele over alleged drugs dealing.

The commission says the prophet is connected with 200kg of druges recovered at the Okun Ajah beach on June 4 and 700kg found in his delivery van on July 6.

Prophet Adefolusho Olasele, known as Abbas Ajakaiye, allegedly got involved shipping illicit drugs from Ghana to Nigeria, and had been on the run for months.

Time ran out on him, on Sunday, August 3, 2025, at his church in Okun Ajah, Lekki, Lagos, as operatives of EFCC who had laid ambush apprehended him afterwards.

A statement on Sunday by the agency’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said the general overseer had fled to Ghana in June to evade arrest.

“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.”

Prophet Adefolusho was arrested at his church located in Okun Ajah, Ogombo Road, Lekki area of Lagos on Sunday, August 3, 2025, NDLEA says

“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”, Babafemi said in the statement

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He said the commission’s operatives on Thursday, raided an apartment at the Parkview Estate, Ikoyi, in a separate operation which led to the arrest of one Benjamin Ukoh and recovery of 32 pouches of Canadian Loud, weighing 15.63kg.

“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.