NDLEA reports 6.1 tonnes seized and 34 held in Ondo
Ondo State's NDLEA command said it arrested 34 suspects and seized 6.1 tonnes of Indian hemp across the state over three months, with 11 convictions. Officers credited traditional rulers with a key role in curbing cultivation.
Ondo State’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency command said it arrested 34 suspects and seized6.1 tonnes of Indian hemp in different locations across the state over the previous three months.[1][2]Eleven suspects had been convicted for drug offences in the same period.[1][2]
Commandant Shedow Gaura disclosed the figures at the 2008 drug-abuse awareness rally, raising alarm over rising Indian hemp cultivation and its effects on youths.[1]Operations chief Okon Okon Ulo, who flanked Gaura, said traditional rulers had a major role in discouraging subjects from planting cannabis and must monitor what was planted on local farms.[1][2]Ulo repeated the same 34 arrests, 6.1-tonne seizure and 11 convictions to the Daily Sun in Akure, again urging monarchs and chiefs not to give farmland to hemp cultivators.[2]
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Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The two opened sources give the same three-month totals but neither gives exact seizure dates or places beyond different locations in Ondo State; the report is dated to the first announcement.
The January 2009 Daily Sun account repeats the 34 arrests, 6.1 tonnes and 11 convictions reported in November 2008, so it is treated as the same campaign rather than a new seizure.
The same November 2008 This Day dispatch separately reports 16 Indian hemp farms destroyed in Osun State, a different event left out here.
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