— 15th December 2017
From: Molly Kilete, Abuja
The Police Force Headquarters, in Abuja, have paraded a middle age woman with 187 bags of marijuana.
The suspect, Doris Ossai, who specializes in the business of
selling marijuana, was arrested by men of the IGP-Special Tactical Squad
team following Intelligence report.
Parading the suspect before newsmen, force public relations
officer, Jimoh Moshood, the IGP, said the monitoring team trailed and
arrested the suspect with 187 bags of dry leaves suspected to be Indian
Hemp at her residence at Rugan Alhaji Gambo Masaka, village Nasarawa
State, near the federal capital territory.
The feat achieved by the team, according to Mr Moshood, was
consequent on the directive of the Inspector General of Police, IGP
Ibrahim Idris, to all Commissioners of Police and their Supervising
Assistant Inspectors General of Police throughout the country to
continue the ongoing raids of criminal hideouts, black spots, flash
points and other vulnerable points throughout the month of December to
the New Year and beyond.
The force PRO, while noting that investigation was ongoing to
arrest other members of the syndicate at large, who he noted were still
at large, said the suspect will be arraigned in court for prosecution on
completion of investigation.