Police intercept 7,500 live cartridges, Indian hemp worth N600 million in Kebbi
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The police command in Kebbi has intercepted two articulated vehicles conveying 7,500 live cartridges and parcels of Indian hemp worth over N600 million.
One of the trucks was coming from Ghana through Togo and Benin Republic to Nigeria, while the second vehicle took off from Benin Republic to Nigeria beating different security checkpoints.
Briefing Journalists on the development, the spokesperson of the command, SP Nafi’u Abubakar described the arrest as “huge”.
He said that on Sept. 10 at about 7:30 p.m., a team of police border patrol attached to Saransa-Maje road, Bagudo Local Government Area, intercepted a container truck registered: Lagos, IT 21520 LA conveying 4,927 parcels of suspected Indian hemp.
The image maker said that the substance was valued at over N300 million.
Abubakar said three suspects, Emmanuel Chukwuma from Abia, Kanta Bisa from Ghana, and Shola Adeyemi from Ondo State, were arrested, while others escaped.
“The same dedicated, courageous and very hard-working team of police border patrol intercepted another container truck with registration number: IT 21608 LA conveying 7,500 live cartridges and 4,106 parcels of dry leaves suspected to be Indian hemp.
“The substance is valued at over N300 million and one AbdurRasaq Agbola of Iyana Ajiya area in Ibadan, Oyo State was arrested,” the spokesman added.
Mr Abubakar said that the team intercepted the consignment on Sept. 12, at about 9:30 p.m.
He reiterated the command’s commitment to fighting crimes and appealed to the general public to cooperate with security agencies by furnishing them with credible intelligence information for prompt response.
(NAN)
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