NDLEA arrests four, destroys 18,000kg of cannabis in Edo Forest

By Ozioruva Aliu

BENIN CITY – The Edo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested 4 suspects and destroyed implicit 18,000 kilogrammes of cannabis sativa successful a large raid connected a wood successful the state.

The operation, which took spot astatine Ugbogui Forest successful Ovia South West Local Government Area, targeted cannabis cultivators. Those arrested see Ebenizer E. Wang, Emmanuel Monday, and David Sunday, each from Akwa Ibom State, arsenic good arsenic Oshare John from Delta State.

Edo State NDLEA Commander, Mitchell Ofoyeju, said the cognition was based connected actionable quality and warned that cannabis cultivation poses a sedate menace to nutrient information successful the state.

“If these forests tin beryllium utilised lone for the cultivation of nutrient and currency crops, the situation of nutrient shortage volition beryllium adequately addressed,” helium stated.

Ofoyeju disclosed that the destroyed cannabis workplace spanned astir 6.79 hectares, with an estimated output of implicit 16,966 kilograms. He added that 112 bags of harvested and processed cannabis weighing 1,176 kilograms were besides recovered astatine the site.

He noted that the raid underscores the agency’s resoluteness to curb cause cultivation successful Edo State and chopped disconnected illicit cannabis proviso chains.

The commandant confirmed that investigations are ongoing, and the suspects volition soon beryllium charged successful court. He besides appealed to residents to proceed providing quality to enactment the agency’s combat against drug-related crimes.

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