In the Ikorodu neighborhood of Lagos, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) conducted a search on a business that makes skooches, a cannabis and black currant beverage blend.  

Operatives conducted the operation on Thursday, September 11, acting on intelligence, according to a statement released by Mr. Femi Babafemi, Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, in Abuja on Sunday.  

According to Babafemi, 4,232 kg of cannabis and 6, 029 bottles of the novel psychoactive ingredient were found within the factory.  He mentioned that the manager of the factory in Caritas, Ibeshe, Ikorodu, had been arrested.  On the same day, a second suspect was apprehended in the state's Mushin region carrying a 26-kg skunk.

According to Babafemi, 161 packages of Canadian Loud, a cannabis strain weighing 81.7 kg and 1.2 kg of hashish oil, were found in a 40-foot container of secondhand cars and auto parts at the Tincan port in Lagos.  

According to Babafemi, the medicines were seized on Tuesday, September 9, during a joint inspection of the shipment. They were imported from Montreal, Canada.

“Two suspects, John Ochigbo, 53 and Okeke Kingsley, 26, have been taken into custody in connection with the seizure,” he said.

On Thursday, September 11, another cargo of Canadian Loud, weighing 65 kg in total, was monitored from the dock to the Third Mainland bridge.  

According to him, NDLEA agents stopped a Toyota Sienna carrying the cargo, retrieved it, and detained the driver.

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