Close to 5,000 marijuana plants uprooted in Kadavu raids
Fiji police officers who are district soccer representatives uprooted close to 5,000 marijuana plants across Kadavu in the week before 15 November 2020. The raids hit Levuka, Yale, Naioti and Nacomoto Village, and police said further officers would keep deploying to support the island operation.
🇫🇯 Levuka, Yale, Naioti and Nacomoto Village, Kadavu · Fiji
Members of the Fiji Police Force who are also district soccer representatives
took over the drug operations then being conducted in Kadavu, during which close
to 5,000 plants were uprooted in the past week.[1]Chief Operations Officer
ACP Abdul Khan said the deployment of officers would continue throughout the
operational period to support the Kadavu operation.[1]Khan said officers from
various units and divisions would be pushed forward to assist Kadavu Police with
the drug operation.[1]
Close to 5,000 plants were uprooted in Kadavu over the past week.[1]The raids
were conducted in Levuka, Yale, and Naioti and Nacomoto Village.[1]Police
described the seized drugs as believed to be marijuana.[1]
Khan said that apart from Kadavu, drug raids continued to be recorded across the
country.[1]A police photo showed some of the district soccer representatives
who were described as instrumental in the Kadavu raid.[1]
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Seized drugs believed to be marijuana from the past week's operations laid out for police. Photo: Fiji Police Media Cell.Photo details
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Source: Fiji SunDistrict soccer representatives who took part in the Kadavu raid over the past week.Photo details
The raids are dated only to the past week before the 15 November 2020 publication, so 8 November 2020 is an estimate for the middle of that week.
The plant count is reported only as close to 5,000, with no farm-by-farm breakdown, weight, area cleared, or official or street value.
The account names no arrests, charges, suspects, or court outcomes for the Kadavu raids, and does not say what happened to the uprooted plants.
The same article also reports a separate seizure of more than 1,700 plants believed to be marijuana at Nadaro, Vugalei in the Tailevu area, which is left out of this report as a different event.
Only one source, the Fiji Sun account, could be opened for this event; a second independent account was not found.
More than 8,000 plants believed to be marijuana were uprooted from two farms in the Lea farming area of Cakaudrove. The joint Northern Division Taskforce, supported by Republic of Fiji Military Forces officers, found the farms this week while police separately seized suspected methamphetamine and cash in Laucala Beach.
Police discovered a 1,500-plant marijuana farm at Vesivuru, Lea, and a 100-plant farm at Nawi, Tukavesi, arresting the suspected owner, a 38-year-old man, as nationwide operations continued on 29 October 2026.
Northern Division police uprooted 2,371 suspected marijuana plants from two farms at Nanuca, Savusavu, on 19 October 2026. A 38-year-old farmer from Drekeniwai Village was arrested over the alleged cultivation.
Fiji Police uprooted more than 11,000 plants believed to be marijuana from a farming area in Nasuva, Cakaudrove, on 2 October 2026. The farm's owner has not been identified and police were still trying to locate them a week later; the plants were seized for analysis.
