NDLEA Arrest Elderly Woman, Man With Cannabis

In Edo State, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on May 11, 2024 raided the Iguiye forest in Ovia North East Local Government Area, where a total of 11,636.185kg cannabis was destroyed on three farms measuring 4.654474 hectares.

NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, confirmed the development in a statement issued on Sunday.

Babafemi said an additional 188kg of the same psychoactive substance was recovered and a suspect, Itah Nyong, was arrested during the overnight operation.

He equally revealed that a 75-year-old grandpa, Jibril Audu, was on May 10, 2024 arrested with 7.5 kilograms of cannabis at Oke-asa village, Ijero-Ekiti, Ekiti State.

This was during a raid operation.

A 70-year-old grandma, Tikwase Nytor, was also nabbed with 15.6kg of the same substance on May 9 during a raid operation at Achusa and International Market Road, Makurdi, the Benue State capital.

The NDLEA Commands across the country balanced their drug supply reduction operations with War Against Drug Abuse advocacy campaigns to schools, markets, worship centres and communities.

Some of these included WADA sensitisation lecture to Muslim faithful at Sultan Bello Jummat Mosque, Kaduna State; students of Oduduwa University and Oduduwa Polytechnic, Ipetumodu, Osun State; students of Nigerian Tulip International Colleges (Boys Section), Kano; students of Federal University of Technology, Babura, Jigawa State; students of Father Tansi International College, Okpuno Awka, Anambra State; WADA advocacy visit to Delta State First Lady, Deaconess Tobore Oborevwori; and a similar advocacy visit to the Founder City of God Cathedral, Cardinal James Omolaja Odunmbaku, who was joined by the Chairman of Ojodu Local Council Development Area, Hon. Segun Odunmbaku, in Ojodu area of Lagos State.