Police arrest driver with 11 wraps of Indian hemp in Edo

The operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested a driver identified as Ifeanyi Okafor (42) with 11 wraps of Indian hemp and other drugs in the state.  Parading the suspects, the state Commissioner of Police, Funsho Adegboye, said the suspect was arrested by Operation Safer Highway while on stop and search along the […]

The operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested a driver identified as Ifeanyi Okafor (42) with 11 wraps of Indian hemp and other drugs in the state.

 Parading the suspects, the state Commissioner of Police, Funsho Adegboye, said the suspect was arrested by Operation Safer Highway while on stop and search along the Benin-Lagos Road on his was to deliver the drugs to someone in Onitsha, Anambra State.

 He said, “The police intercepted Okafor’s vehicle and when a search was conducted on the vehicle, three well-conceived substances later found to be Indian hemp and other drugs were recovered from him.

 “But upon thorough search of the vehicle, another eight wraps were found concealed inside the vehicle spare tyre bringing the total recovered drugs to 11 wraps.”

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“The driver of the vehicle one Ifeanyi Okafor was arrested and he has confessed that he was asked to deliver the items to someone in Easter part of the country.

 In an interview with journalists, the suspect who hails from Anambra State, said he was not aware of the content of the waybill.

“The items was given to me as waybill to delivered to someone at Onitsha. The owner told me it was clothes and shoes inside the waybill. 

 “But on getting to Edo State, I discovered it was drugs when the police arrested my vehicle,” he said.