Police arrest four, seize 40 bags of hemp

Abubakar
 

The police in Ogun said on Monday that they had arrested two suspects found in possession of 40 bags of weed suspected to be Indian hemp.

The police said the suspects were apprehended during a stop and search operation along Benin/Sagamu Expressway.

 

Also, two hoodlums were arrested by the police in Ondo State.

The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement in Abeokuta said the suspects were intercepted and arrested by anti-crime police patrol team of Odogbolu Division.

 

Our correspondent gathered that the suspects were on transit with 40 bags of Indian hemp to a neighboruing state before their arrest.

The suspects have been handed over to the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency for prosecution.

 

Adejobi, an assistant superintendent of police, however warned those in such nefarious business and criminals to steer clear of the state, adding that measures had been put in place by the command to ensure security of lives and property.

 

Meanwhile, two hoodlums who specialised in blocking highways with logs of wood to rob motorists on the Akure-Ilesha highway were on Monday arrested by men of the Ondo State Police Command.

 

The Public Relations Officer of the command, Mr. Aremu Adeniran, who confirmed the development to journalists in Akure, explained that a team of policemen was drafted to the scene following a tip-off.

 

He said three hoodlums blocked the road with a log of wood and intercepted a Toyota Hiace bus with registration number XA 715 MUS.

 

Adeniran said the bus, driven by Fadeyi Adekunle of U7 Odo Oja Street, Otun-Ekiti, loaded with bunches of plantain, was travelling from Akure to Ilorin.

He said the driver claimed that the robbers dispossessed him of N20,000 cash and a Techno mobile phone.

 

“A police patrol team raced to the scene and combed the area thoroughly and engaged the three robbers in a shoot-out,” the PPRO said.

 

He explained that one of the hoodlums died during the encounter while the two others were arrested with the items stolen from the bus driver.

 

“The hoodlums: Mr. Umoru Farouk an indigene of Kwara State, and Ibrahim Mamman from Dansardo in Zamfara State have been detained while investigation is in progress,” Adeniran said.