Edo: NDLEA intercepts truck with 702 kg of cannabis in 1,049 blocks at Otuo
NDLEA officers in Edo stopped a Toyota Camry truck at Otuo in Owan East on 5 October 2026 and seized 1,049 blocks of compressed cannabis weighing 702.83 kilograms, arresting Monday Orji, Monday Lawal and Precious Uduegele. The agency announced the haul in an October operations bulletin alongside other state seizures.
In Edo State, NDLEA operatives intercepted a black Toyota Camry carrying 1,049 blocks of
compressed cannabis weighing 702.83 kilograms at Otuo in Owan East local government area on
5 October 2026.[1][2]They arrested Monday Orji, 52, Monday Lawal, 40, and Precious Uduegele,
20, in connection with the load, The Telegraph Nigeria reported from the agency statement.[2]
The Guardian Nigeria carried the same Otuo figures in a 12 October roundup of nationwide
October operations.[1]The bulletin did not describe the truck’s destination.[1][2]
Nigeria’s anti-drug law carries long sentences for trafficking at this scale; the October
statements reported no court dates for the three detainees.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
NDLEA operatives stopped a car on the Auchi-Ibillo Road in Akoko Edo, Edo State, and seized 19 bags of cannabis weighing 201 kg in a roundup of cannabis seizures reported on 8 November 2026. The same roundup reported a Benin City drug-joint raid, three arrests at a Taraba checkpoint with 226.255 kg of compressed cannabis, and further raids in Ondo and Lagos.
NDLEA operatives recovered 1,818 kg of cannabis packed in 148 bags in a raid on Odofin Road, Uso, in Ondo State, destroyed a one-hectare cannabis farm in Board Forest and recovered a further 242 kg. Officers arrested 36-year-old Itoro Linus Akpan in operations reported on 8 November 2026.
NDLEA officers found 16.15 kg of Loud cannabis hidden in two wooden sofas from Houston at Lagos airport on 4 November 2026. A freight agent who came to clear the cargo and a caterer who came to collect it were arrested.
NDLEA officers at Lagos airport found 1.20 kilogrammes of cannabis in two of nine parcels hidden in cartons of snacks from the United Kingdom, and arrested a 51-year-old freight agent who came to clear them. The other seven parcels held chemicals for making synthetic cannabis, and a sting in late October 2026 led to a second arrest.