One of the leaders of a cocaine trafficking syndicate, Shodunke Yetunde Simbiat, who went underground since May 2024 has been nabbed in her Lagos home where 23.50 kilogrammes of the class A drug were recovered from her children’s room.
Her arrest came 20 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.
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 kilogrammes 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 kilogrammes.
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.
A thorough search of her home led to the discovery of blocks of cocaine weighing 23.50 kilogrammes concealed in a black suit case recovered from her children’s room.
She admitted ownership of the drug consignment worth over N5 billion in street value.
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