Austin Ogwuda
4 September 2008
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Delta State have arrested a man with 24 bags of substance suspected to be Indian hemp along Asaba-Benin highway concealed in a bus painted with Coca-Cola colour.
Also, over 200 illegal immigrants milling around Government Reserved Area (GRA) Asaba have be dislodged by men of the State Task force on Environmental Sanitation, who saw them as not only a nuisance but security risk. Most of them who claimed they are carpenters, bricklayers, labourers and so on during interrogation admitted they came from Niger Republic and other neighbouring African countries to Asaba to eke a living.
On the latest catch by the NDLEA, Commander of the State NDLEA in Delta State, Suleiman Ahmed Ningi told reporters, "On Sunday 31st August 2008, operatives of the command arrested a man (names withheld) in a Renault bus with registration no XR 467 FGG along Benin/Asaba road with 24 bags containing Indian hemp which were found in a false floor of the bus weighing 300 kg and that bus was painted red with Coca-Cola logo."
While warning drug dealers to desist from the illicit trade, the commander said, "Hard days will continue to await those who think they can use Delta as a traffic zone," adding that, "the suspect will soon be charged to court for prosecution after our preliminary investigation."
Police had sometime in July this year arrested a staff of Ministry of Health Akwa-Ibom while allegedly conveying sixteen bags of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp concealed in an ambulance belonging to Akwa-Ibom state government on Benin/Asaba highway and handed him over to the NDLEA.
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