NDLEA destroys 24-hectare cannabis plantation in Osun forest reserve
The Osun State command of the NDLEA destroyed a 24-hectare cannabis plantation in a forest reserve bordering the Ayedaade, Isokan, Irewole and Ife South council areas, with police, civil defence and local government staff. The command called it the largest it had destroyed in the state.
🇳🇬 Forest reserve bordering Ayedaade, Isokan, Irewole and Ife South LGAs, Osun State · Nigeria
The Osun State command of Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) destroyed a cannabis plantation in a forest reserve bordering the Ayedaade, Isokan, Irewole and Ife South Local Government Areas.[1]The destroyed farms measured 24 hectares, and the agency said the operation was part of its effort to cut off the drug supply during that planting season.[1]
The agency’s chairman, Ahmadu Giade, warned drug barons to stop cultivating cannabis or face the legal consequences.[1]The Osun command said the plantation was the largest it had ever destroyed in the state, and that the operation was carried out with the Nigeria Police, the National Security and Civil Defence Corps and local government staff.[1]
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