NDLEA drug lord seven years after breaking out of prison

Seven years after he broke out of prison, drug lord Ibrahim Momoh, also known as Ibrahim Bendel, was captured by agents of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.

The arrest happened during a raid on Momoh's hiding place in the Federal Capital Territory's Dei-Dei neighbourhood, at Filin Dabo.

This was disclosed in a statement posted on their Facebook page on Sunday and signed by Femi Babafemi, the Director of Media and Advocacy.

Momoh, a prominent trafficker in illegal drugs in the Federal Capital Territory, was first apprehended on November 27, 2014, along with 385.1 kg of cannabis sativa.

 On July 22, 2015, he was found guilty and given a seven and a half-year prison sentence. On May 16, 2016, however, he broke out of Kuje prison while he was still serving his sentence.

The statement in part said, “Seven years after he escaped from prison custody following his conviction for drug dealing, a notorious major distributor of illicit substances within the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Ibrahim Momoh, popularly known as Ibrahim Bendel, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA during a raid of his hideout at Filin Dabo, Dei-Dei area of the FCT.

“Ibrahim Momoh was first arrested on November 27, 2014, with cannabis sativa weighing 385.1kgs, prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on July 22, 2015, but while serving his jail term at Kuje, he escaped from prison custody on 16th May 2016.

 On November 20, 2022, NDLEA agents stormed Ibrahim Momoh's fugitive ex-convict's warehouse on the basis of credible intelligence, seizing 81 jumbo bags containing 1,278 kg of cannabis. His poultry farm in the FCT's Dei-Dei neighborhood housed the store.

“Though Momoh was not around at the time, his warehouse manager, 55-year-old Ghanaian Richard Forson Gordon, was arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced to two years in jail. The Agency, after that, declared Ibrahim Momoh wanted.

“The manhunt for the drug lord paid off on 5th November 2023 when operatives again raided his hideout at Filin Dabo, Dei-Dei area of Abuja where he was arrested with 56.9kgs of cannabis sativa and 42.7 grams of Diazepam. In another raid in the same area of the FCT on Monday, November 13, a suspect, Yusufa Ibrahim, 27, was arrested with 75.3kgs of cannabis.

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