The 9 Brigade of the Nigeria Army has handed over two Suspected Syndicates Mathew Atipaso 24, Joshua Donsu, 34 to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the 9 Brigade Headquarters,Ikeja Cantonment, area of Lagos State.

Brigade Commander, Brigadier General Adgoke Adetuye said on 18th July one truck deployed at a check point along one of the international borders boundary area responsibility intercepted a truck that was carrying substances suspected to be India hemp in it force compartment that was created to conceal the items.

Adetuye said investigation and proper check was carried out and about 397 wraps of the items were actually concealed in the truck.

According to him, this is just barely about three days when the same troops at that same location intercepted another truck that was conveying ammunition into the country through the land border within the brigade area of responsibility.

He officially handed over the intercepted items to NDLEA being the lead agency charge of narcotics and other related substances.

The Brigade Commander send strong warning to criminal element not to use the 9 brigade area of responsibility to convey or smuggle their illegal items to the country, urging them to desist because they will catch them and will be punished accordingly.

Also Speaking, NDLEA Assistant State Commander Intelligent, Lagos State Command Innocent Adinna said the best is to prosecute the traffickers arrested with exhibits and will Charge them to court make sure they receive adequate punishment for their offence.

Adinna said the command will conduct proper investigation and get to the root of the matter and carry out further operation base on this we are also going to prosecute them.

He stated that once a while the chairman of the agency use to give approval to conduct what they call exhibit destruction and that destruction will invite the chief executives and the heads of military, custom, Police to witness it alongside the governor of the state .

Joshua Donsu one of the suspects told the News Men during the handing over, he said I’m a Smuggler ,I don’t know anything about it.

” I don’t know what the driver was carrying he only gave me a lift .

Now there are no jobs anywhere and their is nothing my wife and my Children will eat and I decided to go out and look for what they will eat before I come across the driver who gave me and the other man lift.

I never knew what he was carrying was drugs.

The moment we got to the checking point I just noticed that he just parked his truck and ran away and I was still sitting comfortably inside the truck not until when the Officers now checked the truck and discovered the truck was conveying drugs.

Mathew Atipaso The second suspects said he is an Okada rider ,and hail from Igoro ,also claimed that he is innocent,that the driver only gave him a lift.