The General Overseer of The Turn of Mercy Church, Prophet Adefolusho Olasele, also known as Abbas Ajakaiye, has been picked up by the authorities for involvement in drug trafficking.
According to sources, Olasele is linked to impounded illicit drugs from Ghana.
Officials of the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) had earlier attempted to arrest him, but he got to know before they reached him.
He proved elusive for the officials until they finally captured him on Sunday, August 3, on the church premises in Ajah, Lagos.
NDLEA’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said operatives lay in wait outside the church on Sunday until the service was over and he stepped out.
Investigations revealed that Shepherd travelled to Ghana in June to avoid being arrested.
Babafemi said Olasele had been linked to two cannabis seizures totalling 200kg recovered at the Okun Ajah beach earlier in June.
A second seizure of cannabis weighing 700kg was reportedly found in his delivery van in July 2026.
Babafemi alleged that the pastor confessed to trafficking the consignments via waterways from Ghana.
Meanwhile, the NDLEA in another operation in Lagos raided an apartment at in Ikoyi.
They arrested a man named Benjamin Ukoh and recovered 32 pouches of Canadian Loud, weighing 15.63kg.
Also, in Nasarawa State, NDLEA on Saturday, August 9, recovered skunk, a strain of cannabis weighing 3,093 kilograms, from three men Okem Raphael, 33, Emmanuel Asoquo Johnny, 51; and Chekwube Odo, 25, at the New Karu area of the state.
