‘Bendskin’ rider arrested with marijuana

Police in Ndop, in the Northwest Region, have napped a 22-year-old bike rider with some 150kilograms of marijuana, which he was transporting from Kumbo to Bamenda for FCFA 15,000.

Achilis Dzefor, the commercial bike rider, who hails from Nso, Bui Division, told The Post that a certain Kenneth hired his services to convey the Indian hemp to Bamenda where he, Kenneth, will collect it.

He revealed that it was the 26th time he was running the errand for different people and that a certain Bamenda-based travel agency is used to collecting the material from him at dark corners for onward transit to different Regions of the country.

Speaking in handcuffs, Dzefor lamented that the same Kenneth, who ordered for the stuff, was no longer responding to his phone calls, immediately he got wind of his arrest.

The Commissioner of the Ndop Public Security Police, Gerald Jacques Longso, under whose command the police effected the 5th arrest within a few months, said they now mount road checks about two or three times a week because marijuana traffickers were already getting used to their schedule.

“Even so, they still stop and hide in the bush upon having information that we are out on the road and only sneak and pass when we are off,” he revealed.

The Post learnt that some Government officials use administrative vehicles with CA number plates to also transport the outlawed plant.

Reacting to the arrest of this transporter of marijuana, the Mayor of Ndop, Abel Mbombo Chenwi, whose municipality is a transit zone between Bamenda and Kumbo, hailed the action of the police and all those who helped in the arrest, stating that “The drug has devastating consequences on the society and the youths in particular.”

Marijuana is fondly referred to in Bui Division as a cash crop of the people, owing to its large cultivation in the area.