A twenty-one year-old man identified as Kabiru Mahmud has been arrested by the Kano police command alongside his mother and uncle for being in possession of 49 parcels of Indian hemp.
Mahmud was
arrested at Danbire village while transporting the substance from his family
home at Gadonkaya quarters to a hiding place on the outskirts of Kano
metropolis, after the police received an intelligence report of a young man
carrying sacks believed to be Indian hemp.
It was
gathered that the suspect's mother had directed him to move the substance from
her matrimonial home at Gadonkaya quarters to Danbire. During a phone
conversation, Mahmud's mother told him that the police has arrested his father
with Indian hemp and that he should get rid of the Indian hemp kept in the home
in anticipation of the arrival of the police.
He admitted
taking the Indian hemp and also told police that his father had been in the
Indian hemp business for about 20 years.
Mahmud said;
“I called my
friend at Danbire that I will bring the substance to his residence. My uncle
called a tricycle rider, we loaded the substance and moved it to Danbire. Upon
our arrival, the operatives of Anti Daba arrested all of us."
Kano police
spokesperson, Abdullahi Kiyawa said the Commissioner of Police has directed
that the case be transferred to the state CID for further investigation. He
also ordered an investigation into the source of the substance and how it was
smuggled to Kano.
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