The Delta State Police Command has arrested a 21-year-old woman, Queen Chukwu, accused of running a drug network by using dispatch riders to distribute cannabis across the state.
Chukwu, who reportedly lodged in a hotel for months to run the operation, was paraded alongside some of the dispatch riders said to be working with her.
The command’s spokesperson, SP Dafe Bright, revealed in a video shared on X (formerly Twitter) that the syndicate disguised their deliveries as food orders to evade security checks.
“This dispatch motorcycle you see here has a food delivery sticker. But instead of food, it was being used to distribute cannabis. Dispatch riders usually get a free pass, and they exploited that loophole to move drugs,” Bright explained.
During interrogation, one of the suspects, Kingsley Eze from Ebonyi State, admitted he was arrested while attempting to buy cannabis for a client.
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Another, identified as Ramadan, confessed he was asked to deliver the drugs and collect money from the receiver.
Chukwu herself also confessed. “Yes, I was the one who gave him the smoke to supply. This is cannabis worth about N500,000 because it is half a bag.
“I stay in a hotel, and my customers come there to buy. I am not happy doing this business. I am from Enugu State,” she said.
SP Bright stressed that the police would continue to dismantle such criminal schemes.
“In Delta State, you cannot outsmart the police command, no matter the disguise,” he warned.
