Edo NDLEA blames cannabis farms, schoolchildren’s involvement as key anti-drug challenges

Edo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has listed expanding cultivation of cannabis successful wood areas and the increasing engagement of schoolchildren successful illicit cause activities arsenic among the large obstacles to the combat against cause maltreatment and trafficking successful Nigeria. 

The Command said the improvement is frustrating efforts to curb the production, organisation and depletion of illicit substances.

DAILY POST reports that Dr Mitchell Ofoyeju, the Edo State Commander of NDLEA stated this connected Thursday, August 6, 2026, erstwhile the enactment of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) and the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN) paid  him a courtesy sojourn astatine the Command Headquarters successful Benin City.

Ofoyeju, who called for a stronger collaboration among stakeholders to code the menace, however,  reaffirmed the committedness of the bureau and the visiting bodies to a robust concern successful the combat against substance maltreatment and illicit cause trafficking

“I underscored that the combat against cause maltreatment is simply a corporate work that nary azygous bureau tin triumph alone. 

“The challenges are multifaceted, ranging from the increasin...