He twice evaded capture and vanished in the anonymity of Ghana, but on Sunday, August 3, 2025, the General Overseer and founder of The Turn of Mercy Church re-emerged on home turf—his own church in Okun Ajah, Lekki. Month after month, agents trailed him, covering his footsteps to two of the bigger busts: 200 kg of an extremely potent variety of cannabis picked up at the beach on June 4, and another 700 kg in a delivery truck on July 6.
Investigations revealed he had been organizing these shipments by sea from Ghana into Nigeria. On that Sunday morning, anti-narcotics agents stationed themselves outside his church, waiting for him to step out. The moment he stepped out, freedom for him was gone.
The arrest is just one thread in a broader crackdown. In Lagos’s Ikoyi district, a second raid the same week yielded 15.63 kg of another type of cannabis from an apartment. Across the country, huge quantities of skunk were swept up in Nasarawa, Kano, Gombe, Edo, and other states, and thousands of tramadol and pentazocine capsules hidden in cars and buildings. Every raid was a message: no one, no matter rank, is above the law.
