Wednesday, September 10, 2025 - The Delta State Police Command has arrested a 21-year-old woman, identified as Queen Chukwu, alongside some dispatch riders, for allegedly using courier services to transport and sell cannabis in the state.
Parading the suspects,the state Police Public Relations
Officer, SP Edafe Bright, said operatives acting on credible intelligence
uncovered the syndicate’s modus operandi.
According to him, the female suspect lodged in a hotel for
months where she sold drugs to customers, while using dispatch riders to ferry
the substances under the guise of food delivery.
“This is
supposedly a dispatch motorcycle. When we got credible intelligence, we learnt
that this dispatch rider, instead of dispatching what they are legally supposed
to dispatch, had advanced criminally into dispatching cannabis. Dispatch riders
are usually given some consideration and not searched, so they took advantage
of that. As you can see, the motorcycle has a sticker claiming food delivery,
but instead they were dispatching criminal elements like cannabis'' he said
One of the suspects paraded, Kingsley Eze, an indigene of
Ebonyi State, while confessing to the crime, said
“I was
caught with cannabis. I helped a client to buy it. I was arrested after being
searched.”
Another suspect, Ramadan,who also confessed to the crime
said
“I was given
a smoke to supply. I got the smoke from this lady to go and supply. She told me
when I supply it, the receiver would give me money.”
Speaking during interrogation, Queen Chukwu confessed
“Yes, I was
the one that 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 to
me to get them. I am not happy doing this business. I am from Enugu State.”
SP Bright warned that the command will not tolerate criminal
innovations disguised as legitimate businesses. “In Delta State, you can’t
outsmart the police command,” he declared.
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