Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) has introduced the interception of illicit medication price an estimated N16.6 billion in road worth throughout coordinated operations at Lagos and Port Harcourt ports.
The NDLEA disclosed that these operations had been carried out in collaboration with the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and different safety businesses, who joined NDLEA officers for a complete examination of containers flagged for inspection at each ports.
In response to a press release by the company, “ a complete of Twenty Six Million Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand (26,250,000) capsules of tramadol, in addition to 5 Hundred and Eight Thousand 4 Hundred (508,400) bottles of codeine-based syrup price Sixteen Billion Six Hundred and Eighty-Three Million Eight Hundred Thousand Naira (N16, 683, 800,000) in road worth, had been intercepted by NDLEA operatives throughout 100 per cent joint examination of watch-listed containers with males of Customs Service and different safety businesses on the Tincan port in Lagos and Port Harcourt port, Onne, Rivers state”
This huge-scale bust included consignments of tramadol, codeine-based syrups, and hashish merchandise, hid inside container shipments flagged for suspicious content material.
The Lagos Director of Operations and Common Investigation, who led the inspection, mentioned, “The hid medication had been intercepted by way of routine checks and proactive intelligence that aided us in monitoring their supposed locations.”
Extra arrests occurred throughout Lagos, Plateau, Edo, and Osun states in reference to massive hashish seizures and different unlawful drug consignments.
