Police seize over 10 tonnes of cannabis resin at Meyo-Kyé, northern Gabon
Gabon's anti-drug police seized more than ten tonnes of cannabis resin from a car at Meyokyé, a border locality near Cameroon, and arrested the suspected traffickers. Police valued the load at more than 90 million CFA francs.
🇬🇦 Meyokyé, northern Gabon, on the border with Cameroon · Gabon
Gabon’s anti-drug police seized more than ten tonnes of cannabis resin at
Meyokyé, a locality in the north of the country on the border with Cameroon.[1]The seizure was announced in a police statement reported on Friday 13
August 2021.[2]Officers arrested the suspected drug traffickers at Meyokyé in
the same operation.[1]
According to the police statement, the suspects had placed the haul in the boot
of a car travelling toward Libreville.[2]The suspects intended to sell the
cannabis products in Libreville.[2]Officers searched the car and seized the
packages containing more than ten tonnes of resin intended for trafficking.[1]Police estimated the market value of the seized resin at more than 90 million
CFA francs.[1]
Police described the operation as part of the security efforts carried out by
anti-drug police officers.[2]Both accounts say seizures of chanvre indien,
Indian hemp, have multiplied in Gabon.[2]According to anti-drug police
statistics, about 950 tonnes of chanvre indien were seized in the country
between 2019 and 2020.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The reports give no separate date for the search; 13 August 2021 is the day the police statement was reported and 16 August 2021 is the Gabonreview publication date.
No number of suspects arrested was published; both accounts say only that the presumed traffickers were arrested.
Xinhua's French dispatch states the value as "plus de 90. 000 millions de FCFA" while Gabonreview puts it at more than 90 million CFA francs; the report uses the lower figure.
The stated value of more than 90 million CFA francs for more than ten tonnes works out at under 10,000 CFA francs a kilogramme, and readers commenting on the Gabonreview page questioned how ten tonnes could fit in one car; no official explanation was published.
The 950-tonne national seizure figure for 2019-2020 is quoted as anti-drug police statistics for context and is not recorded as a figure for this event.
Gabonese security and intelligence forces dismantled a cross-border drug network in Woleu-Ntem, seizing nearly 500 bundles of cannabis valued at about 16 million CFA francs. Investigators intercepted the drugs in Bitam and Méyo-Kyé near the Cameroon border and detained several suspects, including a woman near 70 and a 22-year-old student.
The Mouila prosecutor's office destroyed 750 kg of cannabis in fifteen 50 kg sacks on court orders around 14 October 2026. The drug, worth about 10 million FCFA, came from seizures stored under seal over several years.
Gabonese gendarmes seized 80 kg of cannabis in 225 bundles at Malinga near the Congolese border, arresting three suspects travelling in a food-transport vehicle. The haul was valued at nearly 10 million CFA francs and placed under seal pending a prosecutor-ordered investigation.
Gabon's OCLAD and three intelligence services seized 1.32 tonnes of cannabis, packed in 65 sacks and valued at nearly 800 million CFA francs, from a boat arriving from Nigeria. Eight Nigerian, Beninese, Togolese and Gabonese suspects were brought before the prosecutor and jailed at Libreville central prison on 3 August 2026.
