Nigeria’s Anti-narcotic Agency, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has seized two imported consignments of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, with a combined weighing 5,344.1 kilograms along the Epe-Lekki corridor and at the Alfa beach, Lekki area of Lagos state, South West Nigeria.
The Director, Media and advocacy of the agency, Mr. Femi BabaFemi in a press statement disclosed that, based on credible intelligence, NDLEA operatives laid ambush on the truck conveying 50 jumbo bags of the illicit substance.
Also, officers of the Marine Command of the Agency the following day, Tuesday 20th also acting on intelligence intercepted a boat loaded with the same imported substance weighing 2,910kg around Alfa Beach upon arrival from Ghana.
Two Ghanaians Monday Saba and Hakeem Kwana were arrested in connection with the consignments.
Meanwhile, NDLEA’S operatives in Edo state stormed Ekudo forest, Uhunmwode LGA where they destroyed a cannabis farm measuring 2.494863 hectares.
BabaFemi said, the operatives recovered processed weeds weighing 67kg and arrested six suspects.
The NDLEA operatives made several arrests of drug traffickers in Kogi, Niger, Kwara and Oyo, states and have seized various kinds of illicit substance
While commending the officers and men of the affected commands the Chief Executive of the Agency, retired Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa charged them and their compatriots across other formations to remain committed to the corporate goal of ridding Nigeria of the menace of substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking.
