NDLEA destroys 21.4 hectares of cannabis farms in Osun
The NDLEA's Osun State command destroyed about 21.4 hectares of cannabis sativa at the Onikete farm settlement in Isokan Local Government Area. No arrests were made; the command said residents tipped it off and warned landowners leasing fields to growers.
🇳🇬 Onikete farm settlement, Isokan LGA, Osun State · Nigeria
The Osun State command of Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) destroyed about 21.4 hectares of cannabis sativa growing at the Onikete farm settlement in Isokan Local Government Area, state commandant Sylvia Egwunwoke said in a Channels Television interview on 15 August 2016.[1][2]
Residents of a nearby village alerted the agency to the settlement, Egwunwoke said, and no arrests were made.[1][2]She said landowners who lease out their fields to cannabis growers would face the law, and that other farmland in the state had been identified for destruction while the crop was still young.[1][2]
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