More than 6,700 marijuana plants uprooted from five Kadavu farms
Fiji police uprooted more than 6,700 marijuana plants from five farms in Kadavu in the week before 23 August 2020, in raids at Nacomoto, the Lavidi Hills in Nakasaleka and Togoni Settlement in Naceva. Chief Operations Officer ACP Abdul Khan said drone surveillance had spotted irregularities at one farm and that cultivators were hiding plants under cleared mounds.
🇫🇯 Nacomoto, Lavidi Hills in Nakasaleka and Togoni Settlement, Naceva, Kadavu, Fiji
Fiji police uprooted more than 6,700 plants confirmed to be marijuana from five
farms in Kadavu in the week before 23 August 2020.[1]Two raids in Nacomoto
seized more than 1,000 plants.[1]The owners of the farms had not been
identified.[1]
Two more raids in the Lavidi Hills in Nakasaleka uprooted more than 5,000
plants.[1]The last raid, at Togoni Settlement in Naceva, seized close to 200
marijuana plants.[1]
Chief Operations Officer ACP Abdul Khan said drone surveillance images easily
picked up irregularities at one of the farms, and a team was deployed to search
nearby areas and found marijuana plants hidden nearby.[1]Another farm looked
as if its crops had recently been uprooted, but after officers cleared dead
grass and branches from each mound they found marijuana plants hidden
underneath.[1]Khan said police would not give up easily on Kadavu and were
committed to reducing cultivation of the illicit drug, while also targeting
buyers and the proceeds of the trade.[1]Another police team was sent to
Kadavu on 22 August to reinforce officers based on the island and the Police
Special Response Unit.[1]
Photos and video
Police handout photo published with the report on the Kadavu raids. Photo: Fiji PolicePhoto details
The raids are dated only to "this past week"; 18 August 2020 is an estimated incident date from the 23 August publication and the deployment of a further team "yesterday", 22 August.
The plant count is a police round-up figure of "more than 6,700"; the farm-by-farm figures reported (more than 1,000 at Nacomoto, more than 5,000 in the Lavidi Hills, close to 200 at Togoni) add up to more than 6,700, so the report keeps the police total.
The report does not say whether the five farms' plants were destroyed, though uprooting implies it, and gives no weight or area for the crop.
No arrests, charges or court outcomes are reported for these farms; the Togoni Settlement raid later produced a charge, which is recorded in a separate report.
Only one source, The Fiji Times, was opened for this draft; a second account by fijivillage could not be checked here.
The Fiji Times credits the picture to Fiji Police without a caption describing the scene, so the photo is listed on that credit alone.
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