TWO suspected dealers in cannabis sativa (also known as Indian helm) have been arrested with 22 sacks of the substance.
The suspects were said to be transporting the substance on three motorbikes, with one other as the lead team, on Igbo-Ora Road in Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State when officers of the Oke-Ogun Area Command of the state’s Community, Social Orientation and Safety Corps (codenamed So-Safe Corps) intercepted them.
Disclosing this in a press statement, state Commander of the Corps, Dr Soji Ganzallo, through the Public Relations Officer (PRO), AC Moruf Yusuf, said the interception took place at about 2:30 am on Monday, 11 December 2023.
According to the release, the officers were on routine patrol at Abule Sikiru when they spotted “four Bajaj motorbikes with three of the motorbikes carrying 22 sacks of Marijuana and two other people on the fourth Motorbike leading the team”.
All members of the lead team, the statement added, were fully armed with varieties of local charms.
Ganzallo stated that three of the suspects escaped arrest and that two others were apprehended.
Aside from the 22 sacks of Indian hemp recovered from the suspects, also seized were four motorbikes used as a means of conveying the illicit substance, two marked: ABG 041 DY and MEK 071 QC; “the other two were unregulated”, the statement revealed. 
Ganzallo further said that, up to the time of handing them over to the state command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), the two suspects had kept mute on their identity.
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