NDLEA recovers Ghanaian loud, cannabis in Lagos shrine after raid

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives in Lagos on Friday 25, October raided the Igbo – Igunuko shrine, located at the Alfa Beach, Ajah, where jumbo bags of Ghanaian Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 2,760kg were recovered.

In a statement by Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesperson, two suspects, Gbenga Abiodun and Sunday Abiodun were arrested.

Babafemi also revealed that another suspect, Ademola Oyelakin was also arrested same day with 770kg of the same psychoactive substance along Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

Also, in Plateau, a suspect Fadan Bindom, 39, was arrested at Pilgani village in possession of 65.85kg cannabis and 18 grams of tramadol.

Another suspect Sunday Agbata, 42, was nabbed at Pavwei – Rayfield Jos South LGA with 5,830 tablets and ampoules of bromazepam, diazepam and pentazocine injection on Wednesday 23rd October.

Also, Babafemi stated that a major distributor of illicit drugs in FCT Abuja, Umar Muhammed, 40, was on Monday 21st October nabbed following the earlier seizure of a consignment of 198.5kg cannabis linked to him at Wuse market park.