Bauchi Police arrests soldier with 81 wraps of Cannabis concealed in Jeep

SELYA YARNAP, Bauchi

Bauchi State Police Command has arrested  a serving soldier, Yusuf Gongpolai Adams attached to the Nigerian Army, 145 Battalion, Abia State with 81 parcels suspected to be cannabis sativa popularly called Indian Hemp  along on Bauchi-Darazo Road.

Parading  the suspect to newsmen  in  a press conference at  the Police  Headquarters  in Bauchi, the Commissioner of Police , Umar Mamman Sanda  said that  the Soldier was arrested while travelling on Bauchi-Darazo Road by operatives of the ‘Safer Highway’ Patrol team of the state.

According to him, the patrol team, he intercepted a Toyota Highlander vehicle was driven by one Yusuf Gongpolai Adams who later introduced himself as serving military personnel in Abia State.

“The suspect is attached to the Nigerian Army, 145 Battalion, Abia State, and he is presently on a development course at the Nigerian Army School of Environmental and Science Technology, Benue State”,he added.

The CP said,  “a thorough search was conducted on the vehicle and 81 parcels of dry leaves suspected to be cannabis were found in his possession, one pair of army uniform, a helmet and charms amongst others,”.

According to the Police boss, the suspect would be handed over to the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) as soon as investigations were completed.

When pressmen asked him what happened, the suspect said that he was not aware that he was carrying the contraband in his vehicle at the time of the arrest.

Yusuf Gongpolai Adams revealed,  “i am a Lance Corporal in the Nigerian Army. One of my friends (he refused to disclose his name) begged me to help him deliver the vehicle to someone in the state, he told me that he had sold the vehicle to him but he could not come to Benue to pick it”.

Probed further by Journalists, he said that, “I trusted him because we have been friends for a long time, I did not search the vehicle, I just drove it, mine was just to deliver it and go back. Not until it was searched and the things we discovered, I never knew what was inside”.

According to  the  suspect,  he had got across to the friend to tell him what has happened but he was yet to come over to Bauchi to see him saying, “I regret what happened, I made a serious mistake by not checking to know the content of the vehicle before driving it to Bauchi.”

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