NDLEA UNCOVERS WAREHOUSE CANTAINING BAGS OF CANNABIS SATIVA WORTH SEVENTEEN MILLION NAIRA IN PORT HARCOURT.

The Rivers State Office of the National Drug Law Enforcement  Agency on Saturday at the Abuja Estate  in town Port-Harcourt,  uncovered a warehouse containing twenty three bags of  compressed blocks of Cannabis Sativa, weighing six  hundred and twenty-one kilogrammes and Zero points Zero- two-nine kilogrammes of Cocaine with an estimated street value of over seventeen million naira.

Speaking to newsmen yesterday while parading three male suspects arrested in connection with the illegal substance, the Rivers State Commander of NDLEA, Rachael Shelleng said the Agency also stormed the slaughter axis of Port Harcourt and recovered Zero point one five- Zero kilogrammes of loose quality of cannabis sativa, Zero point Zero-Zero-six kilogrammes  of heroin and Zero point Zero-four-eight kilogrammes  of  methamphetamine.                                             

Mrs  Shelleng said  based  on credible  intelligence  report, the agency had  ordered  officers  and   men of the  command  to storm the  two flash points.

She thanked other security outfits for working together with the agency to achieve the great feat.

Meanwhile, the  Rivers State  Commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Mrs. Rachael Shelleng  has  appealed to the  State Government  to assist the agency by providing it  with accommodation, Vehicles  and  other logistics  so that the war on illicit drugs would be heightened  in the   state.

Mrs. Shelleng maintained that if the agency is well equipped, it can comfortably tour the twenty-three Local Government Areas of the State.