NDLEA destroys 35-acre hemp plantation in Kogi

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Kogi State, at the weekend, destroyed 35 acres of Canabis Sativa (Indian Hemp) plantations.
The plantations were discovered, following intelligent reports processed through months of surveillance.
The 35- acre plantations were spread at four locations in Ogori- Magongo local government area of the state.

The operation, which lasted almost 10 hours, involved officers and men of the NDLEA, the police and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC) in a forest at Ososo mountain tops on the Kogi and Edo States borders.
The commander of the NDLEA in the state, Alhaji Idris Bello, told newsmen at the end of the operations that it marked the sixth in the last two years and was one of the command’s outstanding breakthroughs in the war against illicit drug cultivation.
He informed that the operation destroyed, by burning the illicit weeds, rendered them useless and curtailed circulation, adding that the command had carried out similar operations in Isanlu, Ife-Olukotun, Igalamela, Ibaji and Omala areas in the state.
NIGERIA TRIBUNE