Monday, December 22, 2025 - Twenty months after a cocaine trafficking cartel led by a couple: Bolanle Lookman Dauda and Olayinka Toheebat Dauda was smashed in Lagos and Ogun state by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) with multi-billion-naira worth of the illicit drug recovered from them, another leader of the syndicate Shodunke Yetunde Simbiat who went underground since May 2024 has been nabbed in her Lagos home where additional 23.50 kilograms of the class A drug were recovered from her children’s room.
A statement from the spokesperson of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi,
says the kingpin Lookman and his queen Toheebat were arrested on Saturday 25th
May 2024 by operatives of a special operations unit of NDLEA at Ibiye, along
Lagos-Badagry expressway while attempting to cross the land border to deliver
the consignment in Ghana.
‘’At the
point of their arrest, 42 blocks of cocaine weighing 47.5 kilograms were found
on them.
A swift
follow up operation in their residence at Plot 24/25 OPIC extension, Petedo
road, Agbara, Ogun state, led to the recovery of additional eight blocks of the
same drug weighing 10kg, bringing the total weight of the consignment seized
from the couple to 57.5 kilograms.
Determined
to rein in every member of the syndicate, the NDLEA operatives continued with
follow up intelligence and surveillance on the trans-border drug trafficking
organization until a 39-year-old female stash keeper Shodunke Yetunde Simbiat
was identified as a key member of the DTO. As a result, she was trailed to her
31 Onasanya street, Surulere, Lagos residence on Tuesday 9th December 2025.”
Babafemi said a thorough search of her home led to the
discovery of blocks of cocaine weighing 23.50 kilograms concealed in a black
suit case recovered from her children’s room. She admitted ownership of the
drug consignment worth over N5billion in street value.
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