The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), FCT command, seized 2,265.677g of drugs between January and March in the territory.
NDLEA said it secured the conviction of 37 drug peddlers and users between January and March.
The agency’s sniffer dogs were deployed to locate the area the illicit drugs were hidden in the cargo, and they immediately identified the cartons packed in the deep freezers.
In an online video, the council chairman allegedly told a group of youths to use the council’s secretariat whenever they wanted to smoke Indian hemp.
The Taliban-led caretaker government issued a decree in April last year banning poppy cultivation and its processing.
NDLEA seized 460.34kg of illicit drugs in Akwa Ibom in 2022 and arrested 348 suspects.
German authorities plan to legally declassify cannabis and the active substance tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) as narcotics.
The minister’s aide explained that the five persons arrested would be taken for investigation.
Police spokesman Abdullahi Haruna-Kiyawa said “the suspect was driving an unregistered white Honda Accord, 2016 model, when he was stopped for a search.”
Delivering judgment, Justice Uche Agomoh, held that she convicted and sentenced Mr Abubakar based on the evidence before her.
