A bus loaded with suspected illicit drugs was intercepted early hours of Sunday, April 3, 2022, by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) at the Mile 2 area of Lagos State.
Disclosing this in a statement, the state police command’s spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said that preliminary investigations revealed that the drugs, which were in a Lagos colour LT bus, with the registration number AGL 205 YD, belonged to one Alhaji, better known as General in Mushin.
A member of the drug syndicate had confessed that they picked up the consignment, with a street value of about N10 million, at Alaba Rago at about 10pm on Saturday, to be taken to Mushin.
Luck however ran out on them when the RRS officials on patrol stopped the bus on a routine check at about 4am.
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 N500,000 to bribe the officers to release the drugs and the suspects.
Other arrested members of the gang included Ojukwu, aged 36, and Hope Jumbo, aged 40.
The PPRO said that the state Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi, while commending the Commander RRS, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi and the team, directed that the suspects and exhibits be transferred to the Command Headquarters for further investigations.
