The NDLEA’s Borno State Command uncovered 10,522 kg of compressed cannabis, locally called “wee wee”, concealed in a warehouse in Maiduguri, in what the agency described as the single largest seizure within Nigeria’s North Eastern states.[1][2] The warehouse at Ungwan Doki, Maigadari Ward, beside the Borno State Environmental Protection Agency office, held the drugs in 183 giant bags inside a compound of a three-bedroom house and a three-room boys’ quarters.[1][2]
One suspect, Modu Fanami, who lived in the compound with his wife and two children, was arrested; he told the agency he served as an errand boy for the consignment’s real owner, named only as Uche, who remained at large.[1][2] Officers also seized a Gulf car Fanami used to take delivery of each consignment from its arrival point to the warehouse, after weeks of painstaking surveillance.[2] NDLEA chairman Muhammad Abdallah announced the seizure in a statement issued in Abuja on 10 February 2020, saying the scale pointed to transnational cartel links and possible Boko Haram connections, with the drugs possibly bound for Niger, Chad and Cameroon.[1][2]