Richard Anyebe
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said its operatives have destroyed three tons of skunk in the Edo forest, seized 76.9kg loud from Canada, and recovered 390kg of illicit drugs in Kano, Kaduna, Borno, and Oyo raids.
The spokesman of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi stated this in a statement posted on its Facebook page.
The statement reads in part, “Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have stormed Iwe forest in Iwe community, Owan West local government area of Edo state, where they located a large warehouse of skunk, used to store 231 jumbo bags of the psychotropic substance weighing 3,003 kilograms (over 3 tons), which was set ablaze.
“The operation involving hundreds of well-armed NDLEA operatives in the early hours of Tuesday 30th May followed intelligence that a wanted drug kingpin had stored tons of the illicit substance in the forest ready for distribution to other parts of the country.
“Meanwhile, not less than 76.9 kilograms of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis were recovered from four used vehicles in a container marked MSDU6686346 from Canada at the Port Harcourt Ports Complex, Onne, Rivers state between Thursday 1st June and Friday 2nd June during a joint inspection of the shipment with men of the Nigeria Customs Service. The request for 100 percent examination of the shipment followed earlier intelligence received by the Agency on the container.”
In other news, Kanyi Daily reported that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Sunday, disclosed that the total amount of foreign airlines’ trapped funds in Nigeria has risen to $8.12.2m.
