The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have arrested a Nigerian, Olatunde Abiodun Olusanjo, accused of child molestation and sexual battery.
Mr Olusanjo, 53, now risks deportation to Nigeria for staying in the U.S. illegally.
In a statement on Saturday, ICE in Los Angeles announced that Mr Olusanjo was arrested during its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and had been in custody since April 21.
“Los Angeles ERO arrested Olatunde Abiodun Olusanjo, 53, of Nigeria, Apr. 21,” the statement circulated on social media said.
The ICE noted that Mr Olusanjo was previously arrested for child molestation and sexual battery amongst other offences.
“Olusanjo has previous arrests for child molestation, sexual battery and soliciting lewd conduct. He is in ICE custody pending removal,” the statement said.
The arrest came as another episode of Nigerians arrested for staying in the U.S. illegally amid President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigrants.
According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, over 100 Nigerians have been arrested and facing deportation to Nigeria since the crackdown on illegal migrants.
Besides, Mr Olusanjo’s arrest forms part of President Donald Trump’s administration nationwide crackdown on mass immigration, with the former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claiming that over three million ‘illegal aliens’ had been deported as of January 2026.
“In President Trump’s first year back in office, nearly 3 million illegal aliens have left the U.S. because of the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, including an estimated 2.2 million self-deportations and more than 675,000 deportations,” Ms Noem said.
Earlier in February American authorities also listed 18 Nigerian nationals tagged the ‘worst of the worst’ criminals for deportation to the West African country, with serial fraudster and disgraced businessman Obinwanne ‘Invictus’ Okeke being one of them.
This followed Mr Okeke’s release from custody by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons Mr Okeke, after spending six years in jail for scamming America-based businesses of $11 million between 2015 and 2019.
As expected, Mr Olusanjo’s arrest has sparked reactions on social media, with many expressing concerns that he could return to Nigeria and continue committing crimes more freely.
“The most painful part is they will send him back here and he will continue this crime here. When people commit crimes against US from other countries, you ask for extradition. Please he committed the crimes there, prosecute him there,” X user @UmehWrites said.
Another commenter, @MDApieA2, also canvassed a similar position, stating, “Another diaspora pervert shockingly finding out that sexually abusing children in Nigeria without recourse actually results in a different outcome outside Nigeria is arrest, prosecution, conviction and imprisonment. I hope they castrate him as well.”
“Nigerians are now being recognised for another low internationally; paedophilia. This and fraud are clearly pushing Nigeria higher on the global crime index data. Presently no. 7,” a commenter, @edolefty, stated as he highlighted growing penchant for crimes by some Nigerians abroad.
