NDLEA Arrests 104 Suspects In Edo, Destroys Cannabis Worth N1.8B

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Edo State command, has said that its operatives have arrested 104 suspects in possession of hard drugs in the state.
The state Commander, Mitchell Ofoyeju, who disclosed this while presenting his first quarter operational scorecard in Benin, noted that the agency destroyed cannabis worth N1.8 billion.
Ofoyeju said, “Those arrested during various intelligence-led raid operations compromised 71 males and 33 females totaling 104. In all, 18,380kg of drugs were recovered, including 5,825kg seized and a whooping 12,556kg of cannabis destroyed in ten cannabis farms measuring 5.02260 hectares.
“The breakdown of the drugs is as follows; cannabis 18,293kg, psychotropic 6.0ikg, methamphetamine 0.1888kg, cocaine 0.023kg, heroin 0.0151kg and codeine cough syrup 81.4 litres”,
Ofoyeju said the command in the period under review, secured the convictions of 36 persons comprising 32 males and 4 females.
The commander added that 28 drug-dependent clients were rehabilitated while 66 others received counseling and were reunited with their families.
He said he has also intensified its anti-drug abuse education to a total of 26 programmes to highlight the dangers of drug trafficking and abuse.