Community leader on the run as NDLEA arrests his wife and son with 226kg of illicit drugs in Lagos.
A community leader and Sarkin Yamma of Badagry West LCDA, Alhaji Bashir Mohammed Talba, was the subject of a significant raid by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Lagos on Wednesday, September 18th.
The operation targeted two of his residences, during which authorities recovered a substantial amount of cannabis, totaling 226 kg from his two wives and son.
The agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, September 22, said: “Though Alhaji Talba is currently at large, a search of his house in Ashipa area of Seme Badagry led to the recovery of 93 compressed blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 57.6kg from his first wife, Asma’u Bashiru, 35, and son, Sadat Bashiru, 22.
Another search of his house at Aketegbo area of Seme Badagry led to the seizure of 302 compressed blocks of cannabis weighing 168.6kg from his second wife Hauwa Bashir, 42.”
