NDLEA harvests 28 kg of fresh cannabis from a Yola South home and farm
Adamawa NDLEA arrested 30-year-old Samson Raymond in Modire, Yolde Pate, after intelligence led officers to harvest suspected cannabis at his house and on a riverside farm, weighing 28 kg in total.
🇳🇬 Modire Community, Yolde Pate, Yola South LGA, Adamawa State · Nigeria
The Adamawa State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said its municipal
area command arrested 30-year-old Samson Raymond at his home in Modire Community, Yolde Pate, Yola
South Local Government Area, after credible intelligence on cannabis cultivation.[1][2]
According to spokesman ASN Abner Yusha, operatives harvested fresh plants suspected to be cannabis
sativa at the residence and then went to Raymond’s farm along the riverside in the same community,
where they harvested more plants.[1][2]The agency put the total weight of fresh material seized at
28 kg.[1][2]
The command said the operation was part of intelligence-led work against cultivation and trafficking
in Adamawa; neither account reported charges filed in court.[1][2]
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