Osadebe Arrested With 22 Bags Of Indian Hemp

Stories by XAVIER NDAH

One thing People should know  about the police is that you cannot fool them for too long unless you have nothing to do with crime.
Probably Peter Osadebe thought a fake Federal Government plate number could make him and his cohorts to stay in business for too long; then he may not have known that the police are well trained in the art and that they can only derail when they want to compromise.
Definitely, October 23, 2008 was not a good day for Osadebe who was concerned at Iyana Ipaja with a pick up vehicle loaded with twenty-two bags of weeds suspected to be Indian Hemp.
Osadebe according to the zone 2 Police Public Relations Officer, Woman Assistant Superintendent of Police (W/ASP) Linda Ekebe, the suspect was arrested at Ipaja area of Lagos State, while conveying the deadly weeds to unknown destination.
In a chat with Crime and Security, Osadebe, 35, from Delta State said he was not the owner of the weeds.
He said he was only contracted to convey the goods from Ifo to Iyana-Oba by the duo of Ndidi Sunday and one Mr. Joseph for the sum of Ten thousand naira which he did.
“I am a driver, I was hired to convey the bags from Ifo to Iyana-Oba by Sunday and Joseph. They have ran away. They paid me N10,000. If I had known, I would have ran away when the police stopped me. Actually if not for the heavy traffic, I don't think I would have been arrested. The vehicle is owned by Ndidi Sunday. I was lured to drive the vehicle for only that day” Osadebe said.
Crime and Security asked Osadebe if he never knew the content in the bag, and whether the vehicle he drove was a federal government vehicle, he replied.
“Actually I knew the content in the bags and the vehicle. I knew it was not owned by the federal government. If I had known that it will turn out to be like this I would have also ran away. This is the mistake I made. It is a pity. I can never do a thing like this again in my life. My brother (referring to our reporter) Please is there any way out?” he pleaded.
Ekebe told Crime and Security that the suspects used fake federal government plate number FG 10 G15 with bold inscription 'Presidency' on the vehicle to beat police.
She said “efforts are in top gear to arrest the other fleeing suspects who would be charged to court at the end of our investigations” Ekebe said.