The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has destroyed over 100,000 kilogramme of cannabis spread across 51 hectares of farmland in Ekiti state.
The Gen. Buba Marwa-led NDLEA made this known in a statement on Sunday, the News Agency of Nigeria, NANS reports. .
According to the statement signed by the agency’s spokesman Femi Babafemi the operation, which was carried out by the agency’s operatives also led to the arrest of some suspects.
Babafemi mentioned the area where the raid took place to include Aba Saalaja with 23 hectares, Aba Paanu with 12 hectares, and Aba Arogunmatidi with 16 hectares, all within the Ise-Ekiti forest reserve.
He stated that NDLEA operatives supported by men of the Nigerian Army on Tuesday, 3 September, and Wednesday, 4 September, stormed three camps inside the Ise-Ekiti forest reserve in the Ise/Orun Local Government Area of the state.
He also said two suspects were arrested on Friday, on the Toro-Jos Road, Kaduna, with 305kg cannabis (Indian hemp) concealed in a false compartment of a J5 boxer bus marked YLA 682 XM were also confiscated.
The agency’s spokesman further stated that another suspect was arrested in possession of 18 kilogrammes of the same substance in Makarfi town.
“Two other suspects others: were arrested on the Zaria- Kaduna highway in possession of 1300 tablets of Tramadol, all same day,” he said.
Also, in Jigawa State, a 30-year-old man was nabbed with 32.6kg of cannabis (Indian hemp) on Thursday, 5 September, at Koran Shehu.
Babafemi said that operatives in Kogi State, on Wednesday, intercepted 77,300 pills of Tramadol, Diazepam, and Exol-5 with 1,230 bottles of Codeine in a commercial bus driven by Attai Okolo, 68, along Aloma – Ejule road, Ofu LGA, Kogi State.
“Another was nabbed on the Okene-Lokoja-Abuja Expressway on Tuesday, 3 September, with 42.400kg cannabis (Indian hemp) coming from Lagos en route to Kano.
“NDLEA operatives in Borno arrested a 40-year-old man at Ramat area of Maiduguri on Thursday, Sept. 5 with 13,100 pills of Tramadol.
“Also, operatives in Kano on 4 September, nabbed a man with 25.8kg cannabis and 3,000 pills of Diazepam along Kano – Daura road,” Babafemi said.
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