⁃ Reject N500,000 bribe
Illicit
drugs with a street value said to worth about N10million has been
presented from being distributed and sold to residents in Lagos.
state.
It was learnt that the illicit drugs was
being transported from the Slabs rago area of Lagos state to the Mushin
area when operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) on Sunday
intercepted the bus conveying illicit drugs at the Mile 2 area of
Lagos State.
According
to the Lagos State Police Spokesperson SP Benjamin Hundeyi, Preliminary
investigations reveal that the drugs which were loaded in a Lagos colour
LT bus, with the registration number AGL 205 YD belonged to one Alhaji,
better known as General in Mushin.
He
said " A member of the drug syndicate confessed that they picked up
the consignment, which has a street value of about Ten Million Naira
(10,000,000.00), at Alaba Rago around 2200hrs yesterday for shipment to
Mushin.
Luck however ran
out on them when RRS officials on patrol stopped the bus on a routine
check at about 0400hrs today. 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 of Five Hundred
Thousand Naira (N500,000.00) to bribe the officers to release the drugs
and suspects"
He added that other arrested members of the gang include Ojukwu Omanogho aged 36 and Hope Jumbo aged 40.
The
Commissioner of Police, CP Abiodun Alabi, while commending the
Commander RRS, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi and the team has since directed
that the suspects and exhibits be transferred to the Command
Headquarters for further investigations.
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