The Oyo State Police Command
has intercepted a lorry with 646
bags of weed suspected to be
marijuana. The police also
arrested two suspects, David
Ndidi and Toyin Adegoke, in
connection with the discovery.
Commissioner of Police,
Mohamed Ndabawa, said the
command acted after
intelligence was received on the
activities of the suspects.
He said “On November 29, a
consignment of weed
suspected to be Indian hemp
was packaged for conveyance
in a truck at a cannabis
plantation in Eleja village, near
Akanran, Ibadan.
The police intercepted the truck
with number plate, Lagos XR
967 JJJ. The value of the weed
is N11m. Ndidi and Adegoke
were arrested while the driver
escaped from the scene. We
are still making effort to arrest
the rest of the people involved.”
Ndidi, 30, told our
correspondent that he was an
assistant to the driver of the
vehicle and that he did not
know that the bags of weed
were marijuana.
“I was hired to assist the driver
and my fee was N10,000. The
bags were locked at the back of
the vehicle and I did not
suspect that they were
marijuana. When police
stopped us, he jumped and ran
into the bush, but I waited
because I did not suspect that
we were transporting
marijuana,” he said.
Toyin told our correspondent
that she traded in orange and
that she came from Ilorin to
buy the fruit in the village when
she was arrested.
She said, “I was buying
oranges to be transported to
Ilorin when I heard gunshots. I
thought they were armed
robbers, so I ran just as others
did. But when I realised they
were policemen, I stopped
because I knew that I was
doing legal business. But I was
arrested despite the other man
(Ndidi) telling them that I was
not one of them. I appeal to the
police to investigate the matter
again and visit my house in
Ilorin. I know nothing about
marijuana and the man
arrested in the truck,”
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