The psychotropic substance were seized when the agency stormed Iwe forest in Iwe community, Owan West local government area of Edo state, where they located a large warehouse of skunk.
The substance was set ablaze by the NDLEA.
The operation involving hundreds of well-armed NDLEA operatives in the early hours of Tuesday 30th May, 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 seventy six point nine kilograms of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis were recovered from four used vehicles in a container from Canada at the Port Harcourt Ports Complex, Onne, Rivers state 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 one hundred percent examination of the shipment followed earlier intelligence received by the Agency on the container.
In Kano state, two suspects: Ma’aruf Rabiu and Abubakar Mustapha were arrested on Tuesday 30th May along Zaria-Kano road with two hundred and sixty blocks of cannabis weighing one hundred and thirty nine point four kilogram, while Auwal Ibrahim was nabbed with thirty eight kilogram of the same substance on Wednesday 31st May along Kaduna-Abuja road, same day thirty five-year-old female suspect, Bilkisu Isiya, was arrested at Birnin Yero, Kaduna in possession of five point six kilogram of cannabis.
