A pick-up van, which was purportedly conveying sawdust, has been intercepted by men of the Oyo/Osun Command of the Nigeria Customs Service in the Oke Ogun area of Oyo State at the Nigerian border with the Republic of Benin.
The NCS operatives discovered that N160m worth of Indian hemp was concealed under the sawdust.
The Controller of the command, Zulkifli Abdullahi, told journalists on Wednesday that the marijuana was in several packs and was discovered in a border community, Elekokan, in the Iwajowa Local Government Area of the state.
Abdullahi said the consignment was the biggest volume of illicit drugs seized by the command in recent times.
He stated that the driver of the vehicle and his motor boy fled into a thick forest on sighting his men.
According to him, intelligence report had indicated that the Indian hemp was heading for Nigeria from Ghana through Togo and Benin Republic.
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