About a ton of marijuana from 7 Kadavu farms destroyed
Fiji police destroyed plants believed to be marijuana uprooted from seven farms on Kadavu Island under approved court destruction orders. Acting Commissioner of Police Livai Driu and senior officers visited the island's police station in the previous week and witnessed the destruction.
🇫🇯 Kadavu Island, Fiji
About a ton of plants believed to be marijuana was uprooted from seven farms on
Kadavu Island and destroyed under approved court destruction orders.[1]Livai
Driu, the police’s Chief Operations Officer and Acting Commissioner of Police,
and a team of senior officers visited officers and drug operation teams based at
the Kadavu Police Station the previous week and witnessed the destruction.[1]
Driu thanked the officers based in Kadavu and those involved in the drug
operations, noting the operations had been long with teams on rotation
throughout last year.[1]
He called on the officers to strengthen community policing engagements on the
island because it was the most effective way to curb the illicit drug trade
there.[1]
Photos and video
Photograph published with the report on the destruction of marijuana plants uprooted from seven Kadavu farms. Photo: Fiji Police ForcePhoto details
The headline says two tons of marijuana were destroyed while the article text says about a ton, so no cannabis weight is recorded.
No count of the plants destroyed, cultivated area, drug value or laboratory confirmation was published.
The article gives no separate day for the destruction, saying only that officers visited last week, so 30 January 2023 is the publication date used as the incident date.
No arrests, charges, named growers or details of the court destruction orders were reported.
Only the Fiji Sun account from the police statement could be used; a second independent account was not available in this snapshot.
The single photo is credited to the Fiji Police Force with no caption describing the scene, so it is listed on that credit alone.
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.
