43-year-old man caught pretending to be mentally unstable while running a secret marijuana farm

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

According to the Police Public Relations Officer, Anambra State Police Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, 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.

The 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.

The CP further 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.