NDLEA destroys 2 hectares of cannabis farms in Edo, arrests 11
The NDLEA's Edo command destroyed two hectares of cannabis farms in Ovia North East and Etsako West within the month to 11 September 2019, seizing 452.36kg of suspected cannabis. Eleven suspects were arrested and are to be charged, while the farms' projected 248,088kg yield was never harvested.
🇳🇬 Ovia North East and Etsako West LGAs, Edo State · Nigeria
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency’s Edo State command uncovered and destroyed two hectares of cannabis farms in the Ovia North East and Etsako West local government areas within the month before 11 September 2019.[1][2]State commander Buba Wakawa told the News Agency of Nigeria in Benin that the farms were estimated to be capable of yielding 248,088kg of cannabis plants.[1][2]The reports name no specific villages for either farm.[1][2]
In the same period the command seized452.36kg of a substance suspected to be cannabis, along with Tramadol and Diazepam tablets.[1][2]Wakawa said eleven suspected traffickers, five men and six women arrested during the period, had confessed to trafficking for money and would be charged to court.[1][2]He described youth drug abuse as a major challenge for families in the state, linking it to disobedience, school dropouts, stealing, armed robbery and cultism.[1][2]
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