NDLEA destroys 16 hectares of cannabis farm in Ekiti, southwest Nigeria
Nigeria’s anti-narcotic body, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA says it has destroyed a cannabis farm in Ekiti state which spans 16 hectares of farmland while 4,000 kilograms of different illicit drugs were intercepted in multiple raids across the country.
The agency disclosed this in a statement made available by the NDLEA director, media and advocacy, Femi Babafemi via the agency’s website.
The statement noted that the agency busted some forests in Ijesha Isu-Ekiti, Ikole local government area of Ekiti state, where the cannabis farmland was discovered and set ablaze, destroying about 40 tons of cannabis plants.
He added that the NDLEA operatives along Okene-Lokoja-Abuja Road also intercepted two Sienna buses conveying 1,194 cylinders of nitrous oxide popularly known as laughing gas which weighed 2,547.2 kilograms meant for delivery in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
The NDLEA is a federal law enforcement agency established by decree no. 48 of 29th December 1989.
The promulgation of the decree was chiefly in response to the rising trend in the demand for and trafficking of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances across the country.
