By Editor
Officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Abeokuta and operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a bus belonging to the Federal University of Agriculture (FUNNAB), Abeokuta believed to be used by the driver to ferry Indian hemp through a border town in Ogun State.
Ogun State Command Customs Comptroller, 
and his NDLEA counterpart, Bala Faggae said on Tuesday at a press conference in Abeokuta that the patrol team of Customs intercepted the vehicle and arrested the driver, Abolade Bolaji who drove the coaster bus with registration number FUNNAB 50 B-100 FG, conveying 211 parcels of cannabis which was made to fit Bible size.
Madugu, Bolaji was caught in Imeko border town, while conveying the illegal drugs into the country, and that the suspect concealed the parceled cannabis under bags of rice he was also transporting.
The Customs authorities handed over the suspect and exhibits to the NDLEA for further investigation at the event.
Faggae said cannabis was now being cultivated in neighbouring countries adding that the haul seized from the suspect weighed 295.4kg.
However, the University has said it would not interfere with the ongoing investigation into the matter in a statement it issued on Tuesday, August 15.
“As a responsible and law-abiding organisation, the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta is committed to upholding all statutory enactments guiding its establishment, subsisting legislation in Ogun State and the nation in general. This uncompromising and non-negotiable stance had always and severally been hammered to bonafide members of staff and students of the University,” the statement read.
FUNNAB also said the school would carry out an independent probe.
“Already, the University has put the necessary machinery in place, to carry out proper investigations, to ascertain what actually transpired on the said date on one hand, while law enforcement agents, on the other hand, would be allowed and supported to perform their statutory duties in the overall interest of all citizens,” the statement said.