Top Nigerian politician arrested with cocaine at Lagos airport

A top Nigerian politician named Asekun Kehinde Sakiru has been arrested for the possession of cocaine at the Lagos Murtala International Airport.

Asekun is also the former vice-chairman of Lagos Island East Local Council Development Area (LCDA).

According to reports the politician contested and lost elections for the House of Representatives in 2007 and the Lagos State House of Assembly in 2015.

Spokesperson for the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi, revealed in a statement on Twitter that Mr Asekun has been on the NDLEA wanted list after several arrests of other traffickers linked to him.

He said, “The long arm of the law however caught up with the wanted baron at about 9.40 pm on Friday 7th May 2021 while trying to board a Virgin Atlantic airline flight to London, the United Kingdom at the Lagos airport. “At the point of his arrest, Asekun was caught with a kilogramme of cocaine concealed in five pairs of palm slippers packed inside his suitcase."

The agency described Asekun as a London-based suspected drug baron who claims to be an international businessman who deals in automobiles., adding that investigations are ongoing to ascertain the actual source of his wealth.


The spokesperson for NDLEA said: “In the course of tracking him, the sum of N131 million was seized from his account and another N14 million also blocked in the account of one of his traffickers, Azeez Adeniyi Ibrahim, bringing the total sum so far recovered from him to N145 million.”