Nigerian Army Hands Over Two Suspects with 397 Wraps of Indian Hemp to NDLEA

Nigerian Army Hands Over Two Suspects with 397 Wraps of Indian Hemp to NDLEA

The 9 Brigade of the Nigeria Army has handed over two Suspected Syndicates Mathew Atipaso 24-years-old , Joshua Donsu 34 years old to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the 9 Brigade Headquarters,Ikeja Cantonment,area of Lagos State Southwest Nigeria.

The Brigade Commander, Brigadier General Adgoke Adetuye said in his speech that,” Two days ago specifically on the 18th of July 2023 one truck deployed at a check point along one of the international borders boundary area responsibility intercepted a truck that was carrying substances suspected to be India hemp in it force compartment that was created to conceal the items and investigation and proper check was carried out.

He said, “we realize that about 397 wraps of the items were actually concealed in the truck and this is just barely about three days when the same troops at that same location intercepted another truck that was conveying ammunition into the country through the land border within the brigade area of responsibility.

“So we are here today to officially hand over the intercepted items to NDLEA being the lead agency charge of narcotics and other related substances and is a forum to send strong warning to criminal element in other for them not to use the 9 brigade area of responsibility to convey or smuggle their illegal items to the country to desist because we will catch them and they will be punished accordingly.”

Also Speaking , Asst.State Commander Intelligent Innocent Adinna NDLEA Lagos State command said,” the best is to prosecute the traffickers the two people we arrested with exhibits we will Charge them to court make sure they receive adequate punishment for their offence.

He added that,” This question has always been asked that people are smoking here and there but we the NDLEA with the resources available to us when we target the suppliers we cut down supply of this because when you cut down the supply you make the drugs unavailable to the users.

” We go out on operation we arrest them but majorly we target the big dealers like this arrest that has just been made, we have made several arrest of big trucks within Lagos so that what we basically do

We conduct proper investigation by the time we conduct investigation and get to the root of the matter and carry out further operation base on this we are also going to prosecute them.

He Stated that,” Once a while the chairman of the agency use to give us approval to conduct what we call exhibit destruction and that destruction we invite the chief executives and the heads of military,custom, Police to witness it alongside the governor of the state.

” It is a public exercise. My word of advise is that drugs kills especially people that take it.

” It causes terminal disease to people they should abstain from it and to the dealers whenever we catch them we take them to court and get to the root of their sources and access.

Joshua Donsu one of the suspects told the News Men during the handing over ,he said that, I’m a Smuggler ,I don’t know anything about it.

” I don’t know what the driver was carrying he only gave me a lift.

Now there are no jobs anywhere and their is nothing my wife and my Children will eat and I decided to go out and look for what they will eat before I come across the driver who gave me and the other man lift.

I never knew what he was carrying was drugs.

The moment we got to the checking point I just noticed that he just parked his truck and ran away and I was still sitting comfortably inside the truck not until when the Officers now checked the truck and discovered the truck was conveying drugs.

Mathew Atipaso The second suspects said he is an Okada rider ,and hail from Igoro ,also claimed that he is innocent,that the driver only gave him a lift