NDLEA Operatives Destroy Illicit Substances In Edo

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have stormed the Ujiogba forest reserve in Esan west LGA, Edo state where they destroyed 7,286 kilograms of warehoused skunk and five hectares of its plantation.

NAFDAC’s head of media and advocacy, Femi Babafemi, said the special operation carried following credible intelligence that some cartels had warehoused hundreds of jumbo bags of the illicit substance inside the thick forest of the reserve for distribution to some states ahead of the general elections.

Babafemi further noted that this is coming on the heels of a similar operation on Wednesday, January 18 in the Opuje forest in Owan west local government area of Edo state where massive warehouses and tents storing over 317,417 kilograms of the psychoactive substance were destroyed and set ablaze in a two-day operation.