Members of a three-man drug syndicate, were, on Sunday morning, arrested
for attempting to sell marijuana to inmates of the Ikoyi Prison in
Lagos.
The suspects are: 22-year-old Ikuomola Abolade, who was
arrested when he was trying to escape; Sodeeq Yunusa, an inmate, who is
standing trial for alleged robbery; and the third unidentified person,
who escaped.
A 10-year-old boy, who is part of the Intelligence
and Monitoring Committee comprising selected officials of the prison,
their wives, the drug unit and the police, had seen them throwing some
packages into the Ikoyi Prisons facility.
He then quickly alerted
the other members of the team. Abolade was, subsequently, arrested,
while his colleague escaped. Yunusa, on the other hand, was caught on
the CCTV recently installed in the prison.
It was gathered that
when the parcels thrown into the prison facility were cut open, they
contained Indian hemp with the street value of over N150,000.
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