The discovery was made after investigators found that seven of 39 cocaine bricks seized during a drug raid in 2019 were missing from the evidence stored at the High Court in Suva, the capital.
24 state assemblies have approved the state police alteration bill. Bayelsa, Gombe and Kaduna were among the latest to vote. The threshold set by Section 9(2), two-thirds of the 36 states, has now been met.