Edo: NDLEA raises alarm over food shortage as farmers turn to cannabis cultivation

The Edo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has raised an alarm implicit the imaginable menace of nutrient shortage, informing that farmers person abandoned nutrient accumulation successful favour of cannabis cultivation successful the state.

DAILY POST reports that the Edo State Commander of the NDLEA, Dr Mitchell Ofoyeju, raised the concerns on Tuesday, astatine the Edo Central Senatorial District Town Hall gathering organised by Senator Joseph Ikpea astatine Uromi, Esan North-East Local Government Area.

Ofoyeju noted that if drastic actions are not taken to code the immense inclination the radical whitethorn acquisition acute nutrient shortages arsenic fewer arable onshore would beryllium disposable for farming activities.

The Edo State NDLEA Commander who spoke connected the topic, “Cannabis Cultivation and Rural Insecurity successful Edo Central”, lamented  that forestlands erstwhile meant for agriculture person been converted into cannabis plantations.

While decrying the escalating menace posed by cannabis cultivation successful Edo State, helium described the improvement arsenic a catalyst for kidnapping, arms proliferation, cultism and younker exploitation.

He added that cannabis cultivation would besides negatively lend to biology pollution.

According to him, what started arsenic hidden plots has grown into large-scale cannabis farms and a concatenation of insecurity. Where cannabis takes root, transgression follows, and wherever cannabis grows, d...