The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has said it intercepted a vehicle and 35 sacks of Cannabis Sativa otherwise known as Indian hemp, weighing 1,244.4 kilogrammes in Kogi.
Commander of the agency in the state, Alhaji Idris Bello, said that the drug worth N6 million was confiscated on Friday in Lokoja.
Bello said that one suspect, Stanley Duru, a 40-year-old boutique manager from Akure, who claimed to be a passenger in the vehicle, had been arrested in connection with the seizure.
He said that the vehicle, a Peugeot J5 bus, with registration number XDA 438 KTN, was intercepted near Kabba Junction on Lokoja-Abuja highway with the illicit drug neatly concealed in the sacks.
The sacks, according to him, were hidden from sight with cartons of assorted biscuits, cheese balls, plastic take-away plates and bags of toilet tissues, with detergent powder sprayed on them to muffle the weed’s smell.
Bello explained that the bus was abandoned after its driver escaped on spotting men of the command on patrol, leaving Duru, who claimed to have been picked as passenger at Okene.
He said that the suspect’s claim of innocence would be investigated.
NAN
Commander of the agency in the state, Alhaji Idris Bello, said that the drug worth N6 million was confiscated on Friday in Lokoja.
Bello said that one suspect, Stanley Duru, a 40-year-old boutique manager from Akure, who claimed to be a passenger in the vehicle, had been arrested in connection with the seizure.
He said that the vehicle, a Peugeot J5 bus, with registration number XDA 438 KTN, was intercepted near Kabba Junction on Lokoja-Abuja highway with the illicit drug neatly concealed in the sacks.
The sacks, according to him, were hidden from sight with cartons of assorted biscuits, cheese balls, plastic take-away plates and bags of toilet tissues, with detergent powder sprayed on them to muffle the weed’s smell.
Bello explained that the bus was abandoned after its driver escaped on spotting men of the command on patrol, leaving Duru, who claimed to have been picked as passenger at Okene.
He said that the suspect’s claim of innocence would be investigated.
NAN
