National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Osun State Command said at the weekend that it had discovered and destroyed 16 Indian Hemp Farms within the state.

In the same vein, Ondo State Command of the agency said the command had arrested 34 suspects and made a seizure of 6.1 tonnes Indian hemp in different locations in the state in the last three months. During the same period, it said, eleven suspects had been convicted for drug offences.

Speaking at the awarness rally for the "Prevention of illicit Drug Cultivation, Trafficking and Abuse" organised in Osogbo, the Commander of the agency, Barrister Mrs W. Audu, represented by her deputy, Mr Onyema Ezeji, stressed that the agency was poised to ensure total eradication of illicit trafficking in narcotic drug and psychotropic subutances.

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