National gendarmes seized an important quantity of cannabis on the Yaoundé-Bafoussam axis in an operation that took place that weekend, as reported by Equinoxe radio.[1] The shipment had come from Bamenda in the North-West and was intended to be sold in Yaoundé and other towns.[1] Officers found the cannabis hidden in maize inside a bus at city-entrance checkpoints, particularly on the road leading to the West.[1]

Members of the trafficking network were apprehended and were to answer for their acts before the competent courts.[1] Lieutenant Jean Bello, head of the criminal research and investigation office, said the hemp had been buried in maize so it could not be distinguished from the maize package.[1] He described the network as running from a supplier around Bamenda through a transporter carrying the haul to Yaoundé to a buyer who collected it for sale across the capital’s neighbourhoods.[1]

After the roadside find, gendarmes followed inquiries until they located the rest of the stock already dispersed throughout Yaoundé.[1] Bello praised the work of officers posted at city entrances, especially those covering the road to the West, a point the second account also reports as a weekend seizure from Bamenda for Yaoundé.[2]