NDLEA Nabs Village Head For Having Indian Hemp Farm

Na wa o. It’s strange how those entrusted with the responsibilities of deterring criminality in their various domains end up getting involved in ungodly things. So yesterday the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) apprehended the 60-year-old village head of Koje community in Nasarawa Eggon Local Government Area of the state  for allegedly cultivating and harvesting 12kg Indian hemp otherwise called cannabis sativa in his farm land.

He was Paraded at the command office in Lafia, the state capital. Confirming the incident, the NDLEA commander in the state, Mr. Sumaila Ethan, said, “On March 4, 2016, we arrested Mr. Samuel Agu, the village head with bags of cannabis sativa weighing about12 kg.
“The village head confessed that he had been getting the supply of the cannabis seeds from a Fulani herdsman, the weed seized from him was the remnant of what he harvested from his farm.
“The village head, who is expected to live an exemplary life style that is worthy of emulation, was the same person selling cannabis for consumption.”
He also added that “It is pertinent to alert the people of the state and the whole world that, there is an alarming increase in the activities of illicit barons in the state particularly those entrusted with positions of leadership in our rural communities.”