Two men and two women – Opeyemi Wahab, 22yrs; Kabirat Ahmed , 21yrs; Yusuf Rasaki, 20yrs and Saheed Mustapha , 32yrs – are currently in the net of the Ogun State Police Command, after they were caught with a freezer-load of marijuana.
They were arrested at what the police call Iperin black spots in the Agbara area on Saturday, during a raiding by a team of policemen led by the DPO SP Adegbite Omotayo.
The police said in a statement by the state police command’s spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi:
“The raiding of black spots across the state is in furtherance of a total clampdown on hoodlums perpetrating violent crimes such as armed robbery, kidnapping, cultism, and the likes. In line with this, a special operation outfit code named “OPERATION PUFF ADDER ” was recently launched by the Commissioner of Police CP Bashir Makama in compliance with the directive of Inspector general of police.
“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” he said
The statement continues
“On interrogation, they confessed been the major distributor of the substance in Agbara area and that they always use the freezer to distribute it around so as to deceive the security agents and prevent them from arrest. ”
