Police uncover Indian Hemp plantation, arrest seven suspects in Ogun

The Ogun State Police Command discovered a vast plot of land that had been farmed for the planting of India hemp and detained seven people who had been caught sowing the weeds.

Nelson Enu, Patrick Emmanuel, Samuel Paul, Ekioya Joe, Monday Okoro, Endurance Eliobe, and Stanley Ogejiagba were named as suspects by the command’s spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement.

The accused were all apprehended when police officers at Isara divisional headquarters received credible information that the suspects had cultivated a big plot of land in Lokuta village in the state’s Remo North Local Government Area for the purpose of planting weeds.

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“The intelligence further revealed that the suspects were threatening the life of the villagers who did not initially know what they wanted to use the cultivated land for, for daring to disturb them while the planting was going on.

“Upon the information, the DPO of Isara division, CSP Shobiyi Oluwatoshin mobilized his men in conjunction with local vigilante and moved to the scene where the seven suspects were arrested.

“Recovered from them are five bags of suspected Indian hemp seeds while two bags have already been planted,” Oyeyemi said.

CP Lanre Bankole, the Commissioner of Police, has directed that the suspects be immediately transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for onward transfer to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for possible prosecution.