NDLEA arrests 68-year-old grandmother for drug trafficking in Edo

Operatives of the Edo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, person arrested a 68-year-old grandma and six different persons for cause trafficking.

DAILY POST reports that the Command besides intercepted 1,956,92 kilograms of suspected cannabis.

Dr Mitchell Ofoyeju, the State Commander of the agency, gave the sanction of the grandma arsenic Evelyn Ogenewu. The fishy was arrested alongside a 43-year-old, Friday Iruoje.

Ofoyeju said 23 kilograms of processed cannabis were recovered from the suspects during the operation.

He besides disclosed that astatine the Yoruba Camp successful Olumoye Forest, Ovia North East Local Government, officers seized 563.5 kilograms of skunk cannabis.

Five antheral suspects, Murtala Mohammed, Abdulkadir Idris, Ufoma Edafe, Anthony Aghati, and Emmanuel Owalu, were apprehended during the raid.

He added that successful different cognition that took spot astatine Otuo Forest successful the Owan East Local Government Area, NDLEA agents discovered 8 bags and 60 compressed blocks of skunk cannabis concealed wrong a cocoa plantation weighing 103.57kg.

The NDLEA commandant stated that during the operations officers located 3 farms astatine Etiosa Forest successful Owan West Local Government measuring 0.145307, 0.203658, and 0.157772 hectares.

He disclosed that a full of 1,956.92kg o...