Not in a bush farm in the South-West, but inside a house in Apapa. Lagos police have uncovered a full-blown indoor cannabis lab, lights, irrigation and all, and arrested two men living there.

According to cbinewstv.com, operatives of the Lagos State Police Command stormed a residential property at about 8:15 a.m. on November 2nd after acting on credible intelligence.

Inside? Not furniture. A sophisticated, high-tech indoor farm allegedly set up to grow, harvest and process cannabis.

Two suspects were picked up right there in the house where they both live, 49-year-old Polish national Thomas Razvickas and 36-year-old Nigerian, James Chisome.

Police spokesperson SP Abimbola Adebisi says both men are in custody, have made confessional statements and are now giving useful information to investigators. The Commissioner of Police, CP Tijani Fatai, even visited the scene himself to assess the scale.

This wasn’t some hidden forest plantation. This was a residential building in one of Lagos’s busiest port corridors. Neighbours had no idea what was growing behind closed doors. It shows how organised drug cultivation is moving indoors and into middle-class neighbourhoods.

Lagos remains Nigeria’s biggest drug market and transit hub. Data from the NDLEA shows Lagos and Ogun consistently top seizure charts, with cannabis accounting for over 80% of drug seizures in Nigeria. Indoor farms like this produce stronger, high-THC strains, often called ‘loud’, which sell for 5 to 10 times more than bush weed and are increasingly linked to youth addiction and mental health cases.

How does an indoor farm work? Growers use hydroponics, LED grow lights, temperature control and carbon filters to control smell. You can harvest every 8-10 weeks, all year round, without rain or sun. That’s why police call it “high-tech”.

What’s next?

Police say the investigation is ongoing. The suspects are expected to be transferred to the NDLEA for further investigation and prosecution under the NDLEA Act, which carries up to life imprisonment for large-scale cultivation.

Historically, this isn’t the first. In 2021, NDLEA busted a similar indoor farm in Ikoyi; in 2023, another in Lekki with a foreign national involved. But Apapa is a new twist; it suggests syndicates are hiding in plain sight.

CP Fatai has commended his men for intelligence-led policing and urged Lagosians to keep sharing information. As he puts it, see something, say something.

Source: cbinews.tv

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