Operatives of Ogun State Police command has arrested seven suspects in connection with an Indian hemp plantation discovered on Saturday.
The suspects were said to be cultivating and planting Indian hemp when they were apprehended.
The spokesman of the command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, gave the names of the suspects as Nelson Enu; Patrick Emmanuel; Samuel Paul; Ekioya Joe; Monday Okoro; Endurance Eliobe, and Stanley Ogejiagba.
Operatives of the command were said to have acted on credible intelligence gathered at Isara divisional headquarters that the suspects had cultivated a large expanse of land for the purpose of planting weeds at Lokuta Village in Remo north local government area of the state.
The intelligence further revealed that the suspects were threatening the life of the villagers who did not initially know what they wanted to use the cultivated land for, for daring to disturb them while the planting was going on.
Upon the information, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Isara division, CSP Shobiyi Oluwatoshin, mobilised his men in conjunction with local vigilance operatives and moved to the scene where the seven suspects were arrested.
Recovered from them at the plantation were five bags of suspected Indian hemp seeds while two bags had already been planted.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to state criminal investigation and intelligence department for onward transfer to National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, for possible prosecution.
