The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have recovered Canadian loud, a strain of cannabis, from Toronto, worth N12,397,500,000 in street value.

A statement on Sunday by Femi Babafemi, director of media & advocacy, said operatives had been tracking and monitoring a container laden with the drugs for over four weeks.

Babafemi said that the container, which had 195 big sacks of Canadian loud, was eventually interdicted last Tuesday.

“A total of 4,959 kilograms of the illicit drug was recovered from the container during a joint examination of the shipment by officers of the Apapa strategic command of the agency, men of the Nigeria Customs Service, other security agencies, and ports stakeholders at the Apapa ports complex in Lagos,” the statement reads.

“The large illicit drug consignment which was loaded into a 40ft container comprising a Ford and a Nissan vehicle came under NDLEA tracking and monitoring system since 25th April 2026 when it arrived Toronto, Canada via truck, Montreal via rail on 29th April, Tanger Med Morocco on 11th May, loaded on another vessel on 23rd May before arriving Tincan port Lagos on 4th June and discharged there 5th June before the container eventually left Tincan and arrived Apapa port on Monday 22nd June.”

Babafemi said that the officers of the agency in the Federal Capital Territory, in collaboration with their colleagues in Anambra state, unraveled a syndicate that plants illicit drugs in the luggage of unsuspecting passengers in motor parks.

“Their trick came to the fore when operatives in Abuja intercepted a consignment of methamphetamine in a Sienna bus coming from Nnewi, Anambra state, at Abaji, FCT on June 20, 2026,” the statement added.“During a search of the bus, a waybill package was recovered containing whitish substances suspected to be methamphetamine concealed inside a black nylon bag, which was also put into another sack of clothes with the phone number of the receiver written on it.

“A follow-up operation conducted on the same day led to the arrest of the supposed receiver of the waybill, Gloria Peter, at Utako Motor Park.

“Peter, however, vehemently denied knowledge and ownership of the package in her luggage.”

NDLEA said that led to the swift arrest of the loaders of the Sienna bus in Nnewi, where one of them revealed that the drug package was put into the woman’s bag by him on the directive of Abdurrazak Isah, driver of the bus.

The agency said the loader’s revelations made the driver open up, mentioning one of his passengers, Onyebuchi Victor Okoye, as the actual owner of the drug.

“Onyebuchi was then picked up at Utako, FCT, during another follow up operation. The illicit consignment weighed 467.7grams,” the statement said.

Babafemi said that the agency would continue its sensitisation and enlightenment programmes across schools, worship centres, including the War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) enlightenment lectures for students and staff of workplaces, and communities.

He said that the agency’s WADA lecture were taken to schools across, Yobe, Lagos, Kano, Kogi and Enugu states.