108 kg cannabis seized from Bamenda-Kumba bus in Dschang; aide held
Dschang police found six sacks of dried cannabis weighing 108.1 kg in the luggage of a Toyota Coaster that had left Bamenda for Kumba and was stopped at Lifock, near the town's bus station. They detained the driver's assistant, Christian Toninbeng; the driver slipped away saying he was fetching a mechanic, and police issued a search notice for him.
🇨🇲 Lifock, near the bus station, Dschang, Menoua, West Region · Cameroon
Officers of Dschang’s second-district police station seized six sacks of dried
cannabis during a road check at Lifock, near Dschang’s bus station.[1]The six
sacks weighed 108.1 kg in total.[1]Police detained the driver’s assistant,
Christian Toninbeng, after finding the cannabis in the bus luggage.[1]
The bus, a Toyota Coaster run by a travel agency, had left Bamenda for Kumba in
the South-West Region.[1]Judicial police officer Nnane Sone Moses, head of
the second-district station, led the check with his officers.[1]The second
account places the interception near the Tradex station, upstream of the Lifock
bus station, after police acted on a tip.[2]
The driver, 35-year-old Raymond Meland Tinjoh, pretended to go and fetch a
technician and then fled into town.[2]The cannabis, said to be meant for a
man named Derrick in Kumba, was stored at the second-district police station
while the assistant remained in its cells.[1]Police issued a search notice
for the driver, whose telephone line no longer answered after he slipped away.[1]
A second account dates the same seizure of six sacks of dried cannabis by the
same station to Saturday 4 April 2015.[2]
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237online gives no separate date for the road check, saying only that it happened a few days before its 17 April 2015 publication; the report uses 4 April 2015 from Camer.be, which attributes the story to Le Jour.
No figure for the number of plants, the cannabis value, or any field area was published.
Camer.be says the assistant claimed not to know what the sacks held and that they belonged to a man named Derrick in Kumba, while 237online writes that he admitted being tasked with getting the sacks loaded; the report states only that he was detained and held.
No charge, court appearance or outcome was reported for Christian Toninbeng, and police did not report catching the driver.
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