Police Arrest 3 Men With 40 Bags Of Indian Hemp

LUCKY LAWAL

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested three men who were transporting 40 bags of substances suspected to be Indian hemp from Edo State to Lagos State.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the three men were arrested along Benin/Shagamu Expressway on Wednesday 8th of August, 2018, following an intelligence report received by the Command that the men used to transport hard drugs as well as dangerous weapons from Edo State enroute Ogun to Lagos State.

P.M.EXPRESS gathered that on the strength of the report, the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, CP Ahmed Iliyasu, directed the officer in-charge of FSARS, SP Uba Adams, to go after the suspects. In compliance with the CP’s directive, the operatives of FSARS embarked on technical based investigation and profiling of the suspects which enabled them to intercept them on a truck with registration number KPP 339 XD. On searching the vehicle, 40 bags of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp was recovered and the suspects were promptly arrested.

The suspects were 39-year old Frank Osai, 25-year old Elvis Okuse and 24-year old Kelvin Ogagaoghene.

On interrogation, they confessed that the weeds were meant to be delivered to a customer who they simply identified as Uche in Lagos.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, CP Ahmed Iliyasu, has ordered a full scale investigation on the activities of the arrested suspects as well as their sponsors.