
Bags of the cannabis strain “Ghanaian Loud,” which weighs 2,760 kg, were found by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Igbo-Igunuko temple, which is situated on Alfa Beach in Ajah, Lagos.
Mr. Femi Babafemi, the Director of Media and Advocacy for the NDLEA, made this announcement on Sunday.
According to Babafemi, the narcotics were found on Friday, and two suspects, Sunday and Gbenga Abiodun, were taken into custody.
According to him, 770 kg of the same psychoactive drug were found on the Lagos-Ibadan motorway the same day that another suspect, Ademola Oyelakin, was taken into custody.
Additionally, 64 bottles of codeine syrup and 11,786 tablets of tramadol, molly, Rohypnol, and diazepam were found on Friday in an underground storage that was purportedly dug by a suspect named Mohammed Abdullahi.
The suspect reportedly dug up the storage in his bedroom along Marwa Coastal Road, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, according to Babafemi.
He claims that on the same day that another suspect, Ademola Oyelakin, was arrested, 770 kg of the same psychoactive substance was discovered on the Lagos-Ibadan motorway.
In addition, an underground vault supposedly excavated by a suspect called Mohammed Abdullahi yielded 11,786 pills of tramadol, molly, Rohypnol, and diazepam on Friday, along with 64 bottles of codeine syrup.
Babafemi claims that the suspect dug up the storeroom in his bedroom on Marwa Coastal Road in Lekki Phase 1, Lagos.
In Edo, at Ewu intersection, Irrua, Esan Central LGA of the state, NDLEA agents found 640 kg of cannabis hidden in 80 large bags of fresh vegetables.
According to Babafemi, on Thursday, October 24, NDLEA agents apprehended a 27-year-old suspect named Austin Oruamen and apprehended another suspect, Adereti Kazeem, 35, in Obalayan, Ile-Ife, Osun, with 200 blocks of cannabis weighing 133 kg.