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The Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have unraveled a cluster of cannabis syndicates operating in the Opuje forests in Edo state where massive warehouses and tents storing over 317,417 kilograms (317.



4 metric tons) of the psychoactive substance were destroyed and set ablaze in a two-day operation.

In a statement released, the spokesperson of the antidrug agency, Femi Babafemi, said a suspect, Omoruan Theophilus, 37, who parades himself as a Police Inspector to convey the drugs from the forests to the cities and three others identified as Aigberuan Jacob, 42; Ekeinde Anthony Zaza, 53, and Naomi Patience Ohiewere, 42, were arrested in connection with the drugs.

"The Opuje community in Owan West Local Government Area, Edo State, is notorious for cannabis cultivation, where the cartels invest huge resources, cutting down economic trees of the forest reserves and cultivating cannabis on a large scale, running into hundreds of hectares.

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