.ndlea_nigeria intercepts ’50 jumbo bags’ of imported cannabis in Lagos | TheCable
In a statement on Sunday, Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesperson, said the illicit drugs were seized during two operations following intelligence gathered by the agency.
He said the agency’s operatives “laid ambush for a white truck conveying 50 jumbo bags of the illicit substance weighing 2, 434.1kg along the Epe-Lekki expressway” in the early hours of June 19. Babafemi added that the truck driver “jumped out of the vehicle and escaped in a security Hilux van” accompanying the consignment.In another operation the following day, NDLEA said, “a boat loaded with the same imported substance weighing 2,910kg around was intercepted at Alfa Beach upon arrival from Ghana”.
“Operatives in Edo state stormed Ekudo forest, Uhunmwode LGA, where they destroyed a cannabis farm measuring 2494863 hectares, recovered processed weeds weighing 67kg and arrested six suspects, namely: Onyeka Onyedinma; Monday Onyedi; Alex Eboh; Edosa Imariagbe; Godbless Tunde and Godstime Osarobo in the early hours of Monday, June 19.”
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