April 03, (THEWILL) – Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) on Sunday, intercepted a busload of illicit drugs at the Mile 2 area of Lagos State.
Spokesperson of the State Police Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement, said, the drugs, loaded in a Lagos colour LT bus, with the registration number AGL 205 YD, belonged to one Alhaji, better known as General in Mushin.
Hundeyin said, a member of the drug syndicate confessed that they picked up the consignment, which has a street value of about Ten Million Naira (10,000,000.00), at Alaba Rago around 2200hrs on Saturday for shipment to Mushin.
SP Hundeyin further stated that luck ran out on the suspects when RRS officials on patrol stopped the bus on a routine check at about 0400hrs 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 Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N500,000.00) to bribe the officers to release the drugs and suspects.
“Other arrested members of the gang include Ojukwu Omanogho, aged 36 and Hope Jumbo aged 40.
“While commending the Commander RRS, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi and the team, Commissioner of Police, CP Abiodun Alabi, has directed that the suspects and exhibits be transferred to the Command Headquarters for further investigations”, the statement read.
