{"id":78416,"date":"2025-11-09T16:37:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T16:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78416"},"modified":"2025-11-09T16:37:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T16:37:42","slug":"ndlea-arrests-grandparents-seizes-1-5-tonnes-of-cannabis-in-edo-bayelsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/09\/ndlea-arrests-grandparents-seizes-1-5-tonnes-of-cannabis-in-edo-bayelsa\/","title":{"rendered":"NDLEA Arrests Grandparents, Seizes 1.5 Tonnes of Cannabis in Edo, Bayelsa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has arrested two elderly suspects in Edo and Bayelsa States and seized over 1.5 tonnes of cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Sunday, NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi said 73-year-old James Ugbedo was arrested inside a cannabis farm in the Igbeshi forest, Etsako East LGA of Edo State, where officers destroyed 1,459.75kg of skunk and recovered an additional 5.6kg ready for sale.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, 70-year-old Comfort Odudu was apprehended in Onopa, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, with 5kg of cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>The agency also intercepted 769kg of skunk along the Abuja-Kaduna highway, 175,000 opioid pills in Abuja, and 7.6kg of \u201cLoud\u201d on the Okene-Lokoja road.<\/p>\n<p>NDLEA Chairman, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd.), commended the operatives for their efforts and warned drug cartels that the agency will sustain its crackdown on traffickers nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has arrested two elderly suspects in Edo and Bayelsa States and seized over 1.5 tonnes of cannabis. In a statement on Sunday, NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi said 73-year-old James Ugbedo was arrested inside a cannabis farm in the Igbeshi forest, Etsako East LGA of Edo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":78417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-78416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78418,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78416\/revisions\/78418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}