The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has seized two imported consignments of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, with a combined weight of 5,344.1 kilogrammes along the Epe-Lekki corridor and at the Alfa Beach, Lekki area of Lagos.
The Director, Media and advocacy of the agency, Femi Babafemi, in a statement yesterday, disclosed that the seizures were based on credible intelligence.
He said NDLEA operatives laid ambush on the truck conveying 50 jumbo bags of the illicit substance and intercepted it.
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Also, Babafemi said officers of the Marine Command of the agency the following day, June 20, 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,” he said.
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, according to him, also made several arrests of suspected drug traffickers in Kogi, Niger, Kwara and Oyo states and seized some illicit substances.