Ahead of the general elections on Saturday, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, 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.
In a statement by NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, the special operation followed 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.
Seven bags of cannabis and one bag of its seeds were subsequently taken out of the warehouse for further investigation and prosecution of suspects while the rest was set ablaze.