The driver of a bus in which ten bags of illicit drugs suspected to be Indian Hemp were recovered in Lagos State, Amodu Agbaje, has revealed that he was offered N25,000 to transport the illicit drugs from Iddo to Mushin.
Tribune Online reports that Agbaje was arrested by the operatives of the Rapid Response Squad while two other occupants of his vehicle escaped.
The state police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement said “the drugs, packed in ten sacks, were being conveyed in a Lagos colour commercial bus with registration number LND 995 XT from Iddo to a destination in Mushin.
“Luck, however, ran out on the suspects when vigilant Rapid Response Squad (RRS) operatives on routine patrol stopped the bus at about 0400hrs on April 29, 2022 at Stadium Bus Stop, Surulere.
While two occupants of the vehicle escaped, the driver, Amodu Agbaje, was apprehended. The arrested driver claimed he was offered Twenty-Five Thousand Naira (N25,000) to convey the drugs with street value of Three Million Naira (N3,000,000).”
He also stated that the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Abiodun Alabi, has directed the Commander RRS, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, to transfer the suspect and the exhibits to the Command Headquarters for further investigations.
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