At the Tincan Seaport in Lagos State, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has intercepted 532 parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis Sativa (Indian hemp).
In a statement on Sunday in Abuja, Mr. Femi Babafemi, the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, disclosed the seizure.
The drugs, weighing 265.25kg, were discovered inside a black Toyota Sienna bus on Wednesday, Aug. 7.
This bus was among three vehicles in a container with the marking MSMU 6029570 from Montreal, Canada, Babafemi reported.
Working jointly with Customs Service officials and other stakeholders, the interception was made during a thorough examination.
The very next day, Thursday, another seizure of 75 parcels weighing 37.5kg was recorded in a container labeled FSCU-9274613 also from Canada.
Elsewhere, in Adamawa, NDLEA operatives, with the assistance of men from operation Farauta Sector 3 in Mayo Belwa, apprehended a 49-year-old Joseph Peter for suspected drug trafficking on Thursday.
Peter was caught with 425 compressed blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 291.200kg in his Toyota Camry car with the license plate Lagos KSF 381 HM.
Claiming to transport the consignment from Edo to Yola, Adamawa, the suspect provided this information, according to Babafemi.
Furthermore, Adekunle Adebayo, 50, and Yahaya Mamuda, 35, were arrested in Kano at Gadar Tamburawa area on Tuesday with 29.5kg of cannabis.
Nigerian Army men supported NDLEA operatives in Lagos in the recovery of 1,169 kilograms of the same psychoactive substance hidden in a bus along Orchard Road in Ajah on Sunday, Aug. 4.
An additional 1,230.00kg of cannabis was destroyed on a three-hectare farmland in Ikeje forest in Edimogo village, Igalamela/Odolu Local Government Area, Kogi, on Friday.
The owner of the farmland, Danjuma Maji, 40, was detained while NDLEA officers, with the aid of the Nigerian Army, conducted the operation.