The Anambra State Police Command has arrested a 43-year old man, Patrick Ojele, who pretended to be mentally unstable while allegedly secretly cultivating a marijuana farm in Awka for over two years.

 

 

 

A statement from SP Tochukwu Ikenga, spokesperson of the command, said the police operatives attached to the Operations Department, Awka, nabbed the suspect on 17th September 2025 during a routine patrol along the Awka–Enugu Expressway near Ngozika Estate. He later led the team to the hidden farm, where large quantities of weeds suspected to be cannabis sativa were recovered.

 

 

 

 

Ikenga mentioned that the state Commissioner of Police, CP Ikioye Orutugu, noted that the arrest reflects the Command’s renewed strategy of cutting off criminal supplies by targeting drug dealers who embolden cultists and violent offenders.

 

 

 

He added that the CP has directed that the suspect should be handed over to the Special Anti-Cultism Squad (SPACS), Enugwu-Ukwu, for discreet investigation to trace his buyers and dismantle the wider distribution network.