NDLEA destroys 77.5 hectares of cannabis farms in Edo in 2025 campaign
Edo State's NDLEA command destroyed nine cannabis farms covering 77.5 hectares, with an estimated yield of 193,491 kg, between January and November 2025, and plans to turn the land over to food crops.
The Edo State command of Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)
destroyed nine cannabis farms covering 77.5122197 hectares between January and
November 2025.[1][2]The agency put the estimated yield of the destroyed farms
at 193,491.1 kg of cannabis.[1][2]
State Commander Mitchell Ofoyeju disclosed the figures on Wednesday in Benin City
during a meeting with the Edo State Commissioner for Agriculture and Food
Security, Dr Jerry Uwangue.[1][2]Ofoyeju called for the affected farmlands to
be confiscated by the state government, saying the land would have helped ease
food insecurity if properly used.[1]
The meeting agreed that the NDLEA and the agriculture ministry would formalise a
collaboration framework, including identifying vulnerable farming communities and
training farmers to switch to crops such as cassava, maize and cocoa under the
agency’s Alternative Development Programme.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The NDLEA's Nasarawa State command destroyed cannabis farms of about 1.5 hectares each in Awe and Kokona Local Government Areas, its new commander CN Saidu Daniel said at Government House, Lafia. Governor Abdullahi Sule told the agency to search out and destroy cannabis farms on ungoverned land in the state.
NDLEA and soldiers destroyed a cannabis plantation covering 1.646 hectares at Eko Camp, near Illushi, Edo, on 28 October 2026. The agency estimated a potential yield of 4,115.53 kg and reported arresting a 50-year-old woman with 301 kg of processed cannabis.
State CID operatives on anti-crime patrol arrested Aondaver Dominic, Sylvanus Umoor and Peter Tar at Sabongida Bature and Gidan Kparev villages in Kadarko, Keana LGA, on 22 October 2026, recovering dry and fresh leaves suspected to be Indian hemp. A search of a garden behind the suspects' residence found more cannabis allegedly under cultivation; all exhibits were secured for NDLEA handover.
The NDLEA destroyed two cannabis farms in Ugbada Forest, Uzebba, on 18 October 2026, burning 450 kg of processed cannabis and keeping 97 kg as exhibits. A 42-year-old woman was arrested nearby with 35 kg.
