Police Operatives In Lagos, attached to the Area G of the State Police Command, Ogba have intercepted 21 parcels of substances suspected to be Indian Hemp, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the Public Relations Officer for the Command reports.
According to the statement released on Friday 12th August 2022, by SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who shared a photo of the suspect arrested by the Police operatives in Lagos, stated that the illicit drugs were being conveyed and concealed in the bonnet of a Sienna bus with registration number BEN 883 LW driven by one Kalu Orji ‘m’ aged 32 of Angle 90, Auchi, Edo State.
SP Benjamin Hundeyin in the statement, added that “luck, however, ran out of the suspect when vigilant policemen attached to Area G command on stop-and-search, stopped the vehicle at about 1540hrs on Friday, August 5, 2022 at Aguda near Excellence Hotel, Ogba, Lagos State and was arrested.”
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Abiodun Alabi, has directed that the suspect and exhibit be transferred to the Command headquarters for further investigation. He equally reassures the general public of adequate security of lives and property and a sustainable fight against the menace of drug misuse and abuse in Lagos State.