The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Friday said it had seized 5,000kg of a substance suspected to be cannabis sativa.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Peter Adegbe, who spoke to newsmen in Abuja said the seizure was made in Abaji.
Agbede also said some traffickers and two trucks conveying the substance were also arrested.
He said the traffickers and the trucks were heading to Kano and Jos through Abuja when they were arrested on Tuesday.
According to Adegbe one Ubale Hashim, driver of one of the trucks and Sanusi Ibrahim, his conductor were arrested with 80 bags of sativa cannabis popularly called Indan hemp, weighing about 734.7 kilogrammes.
The second truck laden with about 3,750 compressed sativa cannabis weighing about 3,934 kilogrammes was impounded after the occupants abandoned on sighting the agency’s officials.
He said that about 872.7 kilogrammes of the substance was also been seized by the command’s team at Gwagwalada in October as part of the onslaught on drug traffickers, especially at this time of the year.
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