While carrying out raids on criminal hideouts and black spots across the state, men of the Ogun State Police Command, arrested four persons with a deep freezer loaded with weeds suspected to be marijuana.
In a statement signed by DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Command's Public Relations Officer, on Sunday, it was made known that the raiding of of black spots across the state was in line with the recent launching of 'Operation Puff Adder' by the Commissioner of Police, CP Bashir Makama, in compliance with a directive from the Inspector-General of Police. The operation has in turn led to the total clampdown on hoodlums perpetrating violent crimes such as armed robbery, kidnapping, cultism and the like.
"The four suspects, Opeyemi Wahab. 22, Kabirat Ahmed, 21, Yusuf Rasaki, 20 and Saheed Mustapha, 32 were all arrested at Iperin in Agbara area on Saturday 27th April 2019 during the raiding of the area by a team of policemen led by the DPO, SP Adegbite Omotayo. The suspects were caught with the deep freezer which they pretended to be using for sales of soft drinks, but when it was opened, behold, it was loaded with weeds suspected to be marijuana hence they were promptly apprehended", Oyeyemi said.
The police spokesman disclosed that "on interrogation, they confessed being the major distributors of the substance in Agbara area and that they used the freezer to distribute it around so as to deceive the security agents and prevent them from arrest".
CP Makama has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for discrete investigation. He also warned that sales of illicit drugs which is a catalyst for crime commission will not be tolerated in the state any longer.
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