Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have destroyed over three tons of Skunk recovered in Edo State.
The skunk were recovered after the operatives stormed Iwe forest in Iwe community, Owan West local government area where they located a large warehouse of skunk, used to store 231 jumbo bags of the psychotropic substance weighing 3,003 kilograms (over 3 tons), which was set ablaze.
NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi said the operation involving hundreds of well-armed operatives was carried out in the early hours of Tuesday 30th May.
He said the operation followed intelligence that a wanted drug kingpin had stored tons of the illicit substance in the forest ready for distribution to other parts of the country.
Meanwhile, not less than 76.9 kilograms of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis were recovered from four used vehicles in a container marked MSDU6686346 from Canada at the Port Harcourt Ports Complex, Onne, Rivers state.
They were recovered between Thursday 1st June and Friday 2nd June during a joint inspection of the shipment with men of the Nigeria Customs Service.
The request for 100 percent examination of the shipment followed earlier intelligence received by the Agency on the container.
