I Was Arrested When I Started Enjoying Fruit Of My Labour – Cannabis Dealer Lament

A cannabis dealer, Babatunde Busari arrested in Mushin area of Lagos on Friday, February 19, said life as a car cleaner was not the good life he has always dreamed of.

Busari, who is in his 30s, is referred to as a notorious cannabis dealer in Mushin by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. He told officials he started the business two years ago, after many years of making little money working in a car wash.

When NDLEA raided his base on Friday, 22 sacks of Indian hemp weighing 301.2kg were recovered.

The suspect who hails from Ibadan, Oyo State, said in his statement that he had never been arrested before. He stated,

“I used to work in a car wash until a friend introduced me to the cannabis trade. At the beginning, my daily average sale was N5,000.

“I took over the business when my friend travelled out of the state few months ago. It is so painful that I was arrested when I was beginning to enjoy the fruit of my labour.” he lamented.

Spokesperson for the NDLEA, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, said the agency discovered that drug dealers were using one of the shops in a market at Mushin as warehouse for illicit storage of drugs.

Officials of the agency decided to conduct a raid on the area around 3am on Friday, it was learnt.