The Edo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, has stormed Ekudo forest, Uhunmwode LGA where a cannabis farm measuring 2.494863 hectares were destroyed, while they recovered processed weeds weighing 67kg.
The operatives also arrested six suspects namely: Onyeka Onyedinma; Monday Onyedi; Alex Eboh; Edosa Imariagbe; Godbless Tunde and Godstime Osarobo in the early hours of Monday 19th June.
The NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi made this known in a statement on Sunday 25th June 2023.
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Also, two imported consignments of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, with a combined weight of 5,344.1 kilograms along the Epe-Lekki corridor and at the Alfa beach, Lekki area of Lagos state were recovered by the agency.
The NDLEA operatives after a tip off had laid ambush for a white truck conveying 50 jumbo bags of the illicit substance weighing 2, 434.1kg along the Epe-Lekki expressway in the early hours of Monday 19th June.
It was gathered that the truck driver jumped out of the vehicle and escaped in a security hilux van escorting the truck, after the anti-narcotics officers successfully demobilized the truck conveying the drug exhibits.
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