By Godwin Oritse &  Ifeyinwa Obi

FOLLOWING  increased surveillance at the Seme border post, the Seme Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service yesterday handed over to the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency 106 parcels of illicit substances suspected to be cannabis (Indian hemp) and a suspected drug dealer.

The suspect, Mr. Sylvester Gbenga was trailed from Benin Republic to the point of entry and arrested.

Disclosing to newsmen, the Command’s Ag Comptroller Aliyu Sabo, a deputy Comptroller said that the drug were concealed in a Toyota Sequoia vehicle with Lagos State registration No. EKY 407 CA was arrested at Gbaji Customs checkpoint along the ever busy Lagos – Badagry express way.

According to Sabo, the arrest was made possible through intelligence gathering by seasoned officers led by Assistant Comptroller Abubakar Hamza who trailed the suspect.

Sabo, disclosed that attempt by the suspect to bribe officers on duty with the sum of Forty Seven Thousand Five Hundred Naira (N47, 500.00) in order to compromise his arrest was resisted.