Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) in the early hours of Sunday, April 3, 2022, intercepted a busload of illicit drugs at the Mile 2 Area of Lagos State.
Confirming the report, Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin said preliminary investigations disclosed 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 had a street value of about N10,000,000.00, at Alaba Rago around 2200hrs yesterday for shipment to Mushin.
Hundeyin said luck however ran out on them when RRS officials on patrol stopped the bus on a routine check about 0400hrs Sunday.
He said 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 N500,000.00 to bribe the officers to release the drugs and suspects.
Hundeyin said other arrested members of the gang included Ojukwu Omanogho, aged 36 and Hope Jumbo, aged 40.
He said the State Commissioner of Police, CP Abiodun Alabi, while commending the Commander RRS, CSP Olaýinka Egbeyemi and the team had since directed that the suspects and exhibits be transferred to the Command Headquarters for further investigations.
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