Nigeria’s Anti-narcotic Agency, the National Drugs Laws Enforcement Agency NDLEA has arrested a traditional ruler of Kajola a border community between Ondo and Edo state, Baale Akinola Adebayo over ownership of three cannabis farms.
The agency has also arrested a rehabilitated ex-Boko Haram fighter Alayi Madu and other 37 persons over 2.2 tons of illicit drugs seized.
A press statement by the NDLEA’S spokesperson Mr Femi BabaFemi on Sunday disclosed that, operatives of the agency in the early hours of Friday 10th March, stormed Kajola forest in Kajola community, where they destroyed three cannabis farms measuring 39.801546 hectares.
He said the owner of the farms who claims to be the Ba’ale of Kajola, Akinola Adebayo, was arrested with two suspects.
Also, a 26-year-old Alayi Madu, who was a Boko Haram fighter for 15 years before he surrendered to the Nigerian military in 2021 was intercepted by NDLEA operatives on Thursday 9th March along Abuja-Kaduna express road with 10 kilograms of skunk, which he said he bought in Ibadan, Oyo state and was taking the consignment concealed in a sack to Maiduguri, Borno state.
In another development, operatives acting on intelligence intercepted a consignment of 11.90 kilograms of heroin and 500grams of skunk concealed in deep freezers at the Lagos airport that arrived from South Africa on Tuesday 7th March.
Also NDLEA operatives made several arrests and seizures of hard drugs in Edo, Kaduna, Akwa Ibom, Kogi, Ogun, Gombe, Kwara, FCT, Benue, Delta and Kano states.
In his reaction the Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Retired Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa commended the officers, in the affected commands for their diligence and commitment to service.
He charged them and their compatriots across other commands not to rest on their oars.
