Customs find 100 kg of cannabis in bus holds at Obala
Customs officers at Obala in Cameroon's Centre region found 100 kg of cannabis in five parcels hidden in the luggage holds of a Bafoussam–Yaoundé bus on 13 January 2025. An investigation was opened to identify who ordered and who was to receive the load; no one was reported arrested.
🇨🇲 Obala customs post, Obala, Centre Region · Cameroon
Customs officers at the Obala post in Cameroon’s Centre region stopped a public
transport bus on the Bafoussam–Yaoundé road on 13 January 2025 and found 100 kg
of cannabis hidden in its luggage holds.[1]The cannabis was divided into five
parcels, concealed in the holds of the bus.[2]The load came from Bafoussam in
the West region and was headed for Yaoundé, the capital.[2]
According to the state broadcaster CRTV, the drug was carefully wrapped to
escape checks, and the transport company’s managers could not at first justify
why the parcels were on board.[2]An investigation was opened to identify who
ordered and who was to receive the load.[2]
Xinhua, citing CRTV, reported the same 13 January seizure of 100 kg of cannabis
in five parcels on a bus from the West region bound for Yaoundé.[3]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Cannabis
100 kg
Agency type
Customs
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (100 kg)
Activity
Smuggling
Setting
Vehicle
Sources
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No one was reported arrested: the accounts say transport company managers could not justify the parcels and that an investigation was opened, but they name no suspect or detainee.
The accounts do not say whether the bus was searched at the Obala customs post itself or at a checkpoint nearby on the same axis.
No plants, area, street value or number of passengers was published, so only the weight of cannabis is recorded.
No court or prosecution outcome was reported; the investigation to identify the organisers and recipients was still under way.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Xinhua: The seizure came as Cameroon was stepping up its fight against drug trafficking and use under a national drug strategy for 2024–2030.
A joint customs patrol found 24 sacks of cannabis totalling 2,400 kg hidden under planks and produce in a Mercedes truck near the Bandjoun Museum of Arts on 28 June 2025; the driver's assistant fled and the vehicle was secured for investigation.
Cameroon customs officers seized 45 kg of cannabis hidden in slipper bales on a Nigeria-Ekok bus at Ekok on 20 June 2025. The Nigerian owner was arrested and said the load was bound for traffickers in Douala.
Gendarmes of the Njimom brigade stopped a lorry at the Manki checkpoint in the Noun department of the West region and found 50 sacks of cannabis hidden among cartons of soap. The driver and two other men were detained, and the defence ministry said they and the cargo would be handed to the courts.
West Region gendarmes seized a truck carrying 78 sacks of cannabis totalling 7.8 tonnes in the Ndé department. The sacks were hidden among fresh produce and presented to the regional governor in Bafoussam, while the driver and convoy assistant fled.
