Obiefule Chidi, the Deputy Commander of Narcotics, said the dried weeds weighed 1.660 kilogrammes.
Chidi said the drugs were seized from a 1517 Mercedes Benz Truck with Registration Number, Lagos XN 531 KSF, traveling from Edo to Abuja.
He said the suspects had partitioned the truck with a pan, packing the cannabis in the inner chamber and left the outer part empty in a camouflage.
According to him, the command has recorded some level of success in the area of seizure and prosecution of drug traffickers.
``The command has arrested a total of 87 suspects from January to date and have seized a total of 1798.96kg (1.799 tonnes) of Cannabis sativa, 1.27kg of cocaine and 5.20kg of psychotropic substances.
``Worthy of mention is the seizure of 1.10 kilogrammes of powdery substance suspected to be cocaine imported from Trinidad and Tobago in March,’’ Chidi said.
The deputy commander said that the command had convicted 27 drug traffickers and rehabilitated 15 drug dependents from January to date.
Chidi urged members of the public and government to assist the command with useful information to ensure that the society was drug-free.
He also called for support to enable the agency acquire some drug detective machines as well as an helicopter to survey riversides where dealers grew the cannabis plants.
Responding, the suspect who gave his name as Endurance Isibor denied knowledge of the drugs in the truck.
Isibor said the driver of the truck who was at large contracted him as a motor mechanic at the rate of N15, 000 to tow a broken down truck back to Benin.
``I did not go into this business; I was only a spare driver to the boy that drove the truck.
``I decided to stay because we are carrying nothing and I have not been driving this truck with him.
``Actually, he called me on my workshop to come and help them to tow a truck from Abuja to Benin,’’ he said.
The agency also paraded one Mr Abubakar Umar, 31, for being in possession of two boxes of cannabis sativa.
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