The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) reported the interception of 532 parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of Cannabis Sativa (Indian hemp), at the Tincan Seaport in Lagos State. Mr. Femi Babafemi, the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, announced this development in a statement released on Sunday in Abuja.
The intercepted drugs, totaling 265.25kg in weight, were discovered inside a black Toyota Sienna bus on Wednesday, Aug. 7. The bus was one of three vehicles in a container marked MSMU 6029570 originating from Montreal, Canada. The seizure occurred during a 100% joint examination by NDLEA, Customs Service, and other stakeholders.
On Thursday, operatives confiscated 75 parcels of the same substance, weighing 37.5kg, from a container labeled FSCU-9274613, also arriving from Canada.
In a separate incident, NDLEA operatives, with the support of men from Operation Farauta Sector 3, Mayo Belwa in Adamawa, detained a 49-year-old man named Joseph Peter for alleged drug trafficking. The suspect was found with 425 compressed blocks of Cannabis Sativa, weighing 291.200kg, in his Toyota Camry car with Lagos KSF 381 HM. Peter claimed he was transporting the consignment from Edo to be delivered in Yola, Adamawa.
In Kano, two suspects, Adekunle Adebayo, 50, and Yahaya Mamuda, 35, were apprehended with 29.5kg of cannabis in the Gadar Tamburawa area. In Lagos, NDLEA operatives also seized 1,169kg of the same psychoactive substance concealed in a bus along Orchard Road, Ajah, on Sunday, Aug. 4.
NDLEA officers, supported by the Nigerian Army, destroyed no less than 1,230.00kg of cannabis on three hectares of farmland at Ikeje forest, Edimogo village, Igalamela/Odolu Local Government Area, Kogi on Friday. During the operation, the owner of the farmland, Danjuma Maji, 40, was detained.