A suspected male Indian hemp and other hard drugs merchant, popularly known as Malboro, has said he sold an average of N500,000 worth ofIndian hemp and other illicit drugs daily, in Akala, Mushin area of Lagos State.
On Friday, the Lagos State Government arrested three pupils of Atunrashe High School, Mushin, for smoking and being in possession ofIndian hemp and substance known as codeine.
Men of the 32 Artillery Brigade in Ondo State yesterday reportedly crushed a 'notorious' Indian Hemp ( cannabis ) syndicate inside a forest in Owo, Ondo State.
Egbeola said the operatives of the agency confiscated the sacks which contained 272 kgs ofIndian hemp on Thursday, at Ifewara town in Atakunmosa East Local Government Area of the state.
The commissioner said the state government was not in support of any form of discrimination. "The Lagos State government frowns at any form of discrimination in whatever guise or disguise.
It all happened in the northern Indianstateof Uttar Pradesh. The animals were arrested after eating up "expensive" plants just outside the compound of the main jail in the state's Jalaun district, over 200 km from capital Lucknow.
The suspects were arrested while transporting large quantity of dried leaf suspected to be Indian hemp all the way from Lagos to Shinkafi in Zamfara state.