How Police nabbed two for possession of firearms, drug trafficking in Edo

A 22-year-old secondary school dropout named Rukevwe George and a 42-year-old named Ifeanyi Okafor have been taken into custody by the Edo State Police Command on charges of drug trafficking and firearms possession.

Allnews.ng gathered that on Tuesday in Benin City, the suspects were paraded in front of reporters by the State Commissioner of Police, Funsho Adegboye.

Adegboye added that while Ifeanyi was detained by Safer Highways agents during a stop and search operation along the Benin/Lagos Motorway, Rukevwe was apprehended at a place in Benin City.

One automatic rifle manufactured in another country with two barrels and one locally produced gun with one barrel was found on Rukevwe, a student at a Delta State secondary school.

Rukevwe acknowledged, according to the CP, that the host had handed him the two firearms.

“Our operatives have been on the trail of the suspect and the long arms of the law will soon catch up with him. He is yet to give a satisfactory explanation as to what he does in military camouflage.

“But we know that this is the kind of people that will disguise and you think he is a military personnel, and he uses it to commit some unimaginable crimes under whatever guise,” he said.

The CP further stated that eight wraps of Indian hemp and other drugs were found on Anambra State driver Ifeanyi Okafor when he was taken into custody.

Meanwhile, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has carried out the destruction of over three tons of cannabis (Indian Hemp) in a forest located in Edo State.

According to a statement by NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, the substances were found on a 1.577683-hectare farmland.

Babafemi reported that operatives raided the Oloma-Okpe forest in Akoko Edo Local Government Area (LGA) and eradicated 3,944.2075 kilograms of cannabis on the farmland.

Also, the NDLEA operatives in Edo State apprehended a suspect, Kole Samuel, aged 50, on Thursday, March 14. Babafemi stated that the suspect was arrested with 75 kilograms of psychoactive substances at the market area in Otuo, Owan East Local Government Area (LGA).