One arrested with 30 kg of cannabis at Kpédékpo toll post
Benin’s Republican Police arrested one motorcyclist and seized 30 kg of cannabis at the Kpédékpo toll and weighing station in Zagnanado, Zou department, on 3 December 2023. His passenger fled during the search, and the motorcyclist was handed to the central anti-drug office for further proceedings.
🇧🇯 Kpédékpo toll and weighing station, Kpédékpo, Zagnanado, Zou · Benin
Police arrested a motorcyclist at the toll and weighing station in Kpédékpo, on
the Kpédékpo–Zagnanado road, on Sunday 3 December 2023.[1]Kpédékpo is in
Zagnanado commune, in Zou department.[2]The motorcyclist was carrying a
passenger and a suspicious parcel, according to the police account.[2]Officers stopped the motorcycle and searched the parcel after it aroused their
suspicions.[2]The passenger fled during the search, leaving the motorcyclist
behind at the scene.[1]
Officers found 30 kilograms of carefully wrapped cannabis, described in French
as chanvre indien, inside the parcel.[2]The Kpédékpo arrondissement police
station had launched daily security searches across its jurisdiction.[1]Police described the security operation as an effort to protect people and
property at the end of the year.[3]
The motorcyclist was handed to OCERTID, the Central Office for the Repression of
Illicit Drug and PrecursorTrafficking, for further judicial proceedings.[4]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The sources differ on the handover: Les 4 Vérités cites instructions from the Abomey prosecutor, while L’investigateur and OXYGENE say the man was placed at OCERTID; the exact order of the steps is unclear.
No charges, trial or court outcome for the motorcyclist was reported.
The passenger’s identity and any later detention were not reported.
Kpédékpo is named both as a locality in Zagnanado commune and as the arrondissement whose police station ran the operation; the sources do not give the station’s exact address.
No value for the seized cannabis was reported.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Les 4 Vérités: The motorcyclist was placed in custody at the Kpédékpo police station after his arrest.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Les 4 Vérités: Officers acted on instructions from the prosecutor at the Abomey court of first instance.
Police in Houègbo arrondissement detained five people, one of them a woman, in raids on 3 and 6 November 2026 that broke up a suspected counterfeit-money network at Agbotagon. Officers seized 28 sachets of cannabis in the first raid and about 1.5 kg in a shop in the second, alongside counterfeit notes, printing plates and smuggled medicines.
Police arrested a man as he arrived to collect a parcel containing 5.4 kg of suspected cannabis at a Cotonou transport company on 29 September 2026. He said the parcel came from Togo by way of Bassila, and was held while police continued their investigation.
On 22 September 2026, border police on the Niger River at Malanville arrested a boatman after finding two packages of Indian hemp in his luggage. He jumped into the river to escape, was pulled out with help from residents, and was placed in custody while prosecutors opened a trafficking investigation.
Police in Kétou arrested a burglary suspect in a ghetto in the Obafemi quarter and seized 21.5 kg of cannabis. Officers also seized three motorcycles of doubtful origin and said inquiries into the wider network were continuing.
