Lagos police intercept busload of illicit drugs

Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command, in the early hours of Sunday, April 3, 2022, intercepted a bus load of illicit drugs at Mile 2, Amuwo-Odofin area of the state.

Preliminary investigations reveal that the drugs, which were loaded in a Lagos colour LT bus, with registration number AGL 205 YD, belonged to one Alhaji, better known as General, in Mushin.

A statement by the spokesperson of the Command, Ben Hundeyin, disclosed that a member of the drug syndicate confessed that they picked up the consignment, which has a street value of about N10 million, at Alaba Rago, around 10pm on Saturday for shipment to Mushin, The Trumpet gathered.

Luck, however, ran out on them when RRS officials on patrol, stopped the bus on a routine check at about 4am on Sunday. Another member of the syndicate, Oluwole Omojuyitan, aged 40, who had initially escaped the scene on bike, was arrested by the operatives after he came back with a sum of N500,000 to bribe the officers, so as to release the drugs and suspects.

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Other arrested members of the gang include Ojukwu Omanogho, aged 36 and Hope Jumbo, aged 40.

The Commissioner of Police, CP Abiodun Alabi, while commending the Commander RRS, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi and the team, has since directed that the suspects and exhibits be transferred to the Command Headquarters for further investigation.