NDLEA destroys 40 hectares of cannabis in Oyo, arrests five
The NDLEA's Oyo State command destroyed more than 40 hectares of hemp plantation at Aba Tade in Oluyole LGA on 14 November 2019. Five suspects were arrested, and the commander said the owners had taken the land from the village head.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency’s Oyo State command destroyed more than 40 hectares of hemp plantation at Abatade in the Oluyole Local Government Area on Thursday, 14 November 2019.[1]A later year-end account confirms the command destroyed over 40 hectares of cannabis farmland at Aba-Tade in Oluyole LGA during 2019.[2]State commander Ralph Igwenagu said the discovery showed that many farmers in the state grew hemp, and that the command had previously destroyed six hectares in the Ibarapa area.[1]
Arrests and warning to villages
Five suspects were arrested in connection with the plantation, and investigators were pursuing others.[1]Igwenagu said the plantation owners were not from the village but had obtained the land from the village head.[1]He urged community leaders not to release farmland for illicit cultivation and asked residents to report suspicious farmland to the agency.[1]
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