Operatives of Ogun State Police Command on Saturday, April 2, 2022, arrested seven suspects who were found planting cannabis sativa on a large expanse of land that was discovered.
The names of the suspects were given as Nelson Enu, Patrick Emmanuel, Samuel Paul, Ekioya Joe, Monday Okoro, Endurance Eliobe and Stanley Ogejiagba.
According to the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Tuesday, April 5, the suspects were arrested after credible intelligence was gathered by policemen at Isara divisional headquarters that the suspects had cultivated the land for the purpose of planting the weeds at Lokuta village in Remo North Local Government Area of the state.
“The intelligence further revealed that the suspects were threatening the life of the villagers, who did not initially know what they wanted to use the cultivated land for, for daring to disturb them while the planting was going on.
“Upon the information, the Divisional Police Officer, Isara division, CSP Shobiyi Oluwatosin mobilized his men in conjunction with local vigilante and moved to the scene where the seven suspects were arrested.
“Recovered from them are five bags of suspected Indian hemp seeds while two bags have already been planted,” the PPRO disclosed.
Oyeyemi said that the state Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for handing over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
