Over 31 Million Drugs, Bottles Of Illicit Drug Value N17.9Billion Seized At Lagos, Port Harcourt Ports

The seizures had been made following intelligence processed by the Company on the motion of the shipments from their port of origin in India, resulting in a requirement for a one hundred pc joint examination of the watch-listed containers with the Nigerian Customs Service and different sister safety companies.

Operatives of the Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) have intercepted a complete of 31,124, 600 tablets of tramadol 225mg and bottles of codeine-based syrup value over N17.9 billion in road worth on the Port Harcourt Port Advanced, Onne, Rivers state and Tincan seaport in Lagos.

The seizures had been made following intelligence processed by the Company on the motion of the shipments from their port of origin in India, resulting in a requirement for a one hundred pc joint examination of the watch-listed containers with the Nigerian Customs Service and different sister safety companies.

A breakdown of the seizures exhibits that 350,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup had been recovered from two containers at Tincan port in Lagos on Thursday and Friday, August 29 and 30, 2024.

In keeping with NDLEA, every of the 2 containers had 175,000 bottles of the opioid.

In the meantime, Femi Babafemi, NDLEA Director of Media & Advocacy, in an announcement on Sunday, mentioned, “On the Port Harcourt Port Advanced, Onne, NDLEA operatives equally intercepted a complete of 447 cartons of tramadol 225mg containing Twenty-9 Million Eight Hundred and Forty Thousand (29, 840,000) tablets of the opioid in addition to 380,000 bottles of codeine syrup from three containers on Thursday twenty ninth August.

“The tramadol shipments got here below completely different model names reminiscent of Royal Tapetadol, Carisoprodol 225mg and Royal Tramadol Hydrochloride 225mg.

“The next day, Friday thirtieth August, one other set of three containers watch-listed by NDLEA had been subjected to joint examination. On the finish of the train, a complete of three,030 cartons of codeine syrup containing 554,600 bottles of the opioid had been recovered from them.

“This brings the entire bottles of codeine seized at Onne, Rivers and Tincan in Lagos to 1,284,600 bottles value N8,992,200,000.00 in road worth whereas the mixed seizure of tramadol stood at 29, 840,000 tablets valued at N8,940,000,000.00.

“In the identical vein, NDLEA operatives on the Port Harcourt Worldwide Airport, Rivers state on Tuesday twenty seventh August arrested a suspect, Eze Emekan Don, whereas trying to board a Cronos airline flight to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea with 1,490 tablets of tramadol hid and packaged as cosmetics of various manufacturers inside his baggage.”

“His try and compromise the officers to evade arrest was rebuffed,” it added.