Wednesday, March 20, 2024 - 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 suspect on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, the
state Commissioner of Police, Funsho Adegboye, said he was arrested by
Operation Safer Highway while on stop and search along the Benin-Lagos Road on
his way to deliver the drugs to someone in Onitsha, Anambra State.in
the Easter part of the country
“The items were given to me as a waybill to be delivered to
someone at Onitsha. The owner told me it was clothes and shoes inside the
waybill," he said.
“But on getting to Edo State, I discovered it was drugs when
the police arrested my vehi“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,” the CP
stated.
"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.”
"The driver of the vehicle one Ifeanyi Okafor was
arrested and he has confessed that he was asked to deliver the items to someone
cle.”
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