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Nigerian Farmers Prefer Cannabis to Food

Nigerian Bulletin

Sunday 08 Dec 2013

Most Nigerian farmers have abandoned growing food and economic crops for cannabis hoping to become millionaires.

The country’s anti-narcotics agency, NDLEA said this on Saturday.

Ahmadu Giade, the chairman of the Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), said in a statement: “It is sad and disturbing that most farmers are now abandoning food and economic crops for cannabis.”

Last year, the NDLEA arrested 8,052 suspected drug traffickers, including 542 women. More than 1,400 hectares of land was used last year for cannabis plantation. Land which could have been used to better the agricultural sector.

The agency seized drugs worth 33 billion naira last year and prosecuted 1,720 suspects. It however, did not say how many suspects they were able to convict.

“We shall continue to dislodge more drug trafficking syndicates because anytime we
intercept drug from criminals, we are indirectly saving lives,” Giade said.

Some of the seized drugs came into Lagos from Brazil and Pakistan, he claimed.

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