There is a growing tendency to tighten up on traffickers in these illicit products.

Following information received by the Hilla-Condji Customs Brigade, the AG 165 JJN truck from Lomé (TOGO) was subject to further control.

In the presence of USMANE Daraman, the driver of the truck, the freight forwarder, and two (02) officers of the Judicial Police (OPJ) of the Agoue Gendarmerie, Lécor made it possible to see outside the declared goods, eighteen (18) other cartons.

A more thorough search of the said boxes revealed Nine hundred and fifteen (915) Indian hemp platelets, with a total weight of four hundred and eighty (480) kilograms.

The administrative formalities carried out, the said booklets and the driver of the truck were taken to the Gendarmerie de Agoué for the judicial proceedings.

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