Abuja, June 9, 2024 – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted another consignment of 175,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup imported from India.
The NDLEA had earlier seized a shipment of the same number of codeine-based syrup bottles at the Port Harcourt Ports complex in Onne, Rivers State.
Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA Spokesperson, said this in a statement on Sunday.
He said the two seizures followed intelligence reports which made the agency request that the shipment be stepped down for 100 per cent examination.
“The latest seizure of 875 cartons of codeine containing 175,000 bottles and weighing 26,250kg was made on Friday June 7, 2024 during a joint examination by NDLEA, Customs Service and other security agencies.
“The container marked HASU 4787890 from India was enroute C to C bonded terminal in Enugu,” he said. Babafemi explained.
Babafemi also said NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation (DOGI) on June 5, intercepted five different parcels containing illicit drugs concealed in ladies’ clothes and synthetic hair going to the United States and United Kingdom.
Some of the seized drugs include 620 ampoules of pentazocine injection, promethazine and other opioids.
The drug consignments were seized at a courier firm in Lagos.
In Kebbi State, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Kalgo-Birnin Kebbi Road on Saturday, June 8, arrested a 32-year-old Nigerien, Hassan Mummuni with 4,000 pills of diazepam and 1.250kg cannabis, concealed in four pesticide tanks, while operatives in Gombe state, on the same day arrested Ibrahim Abubakar (aka Alhajiji) at Herwagana, with 6,740 pills of tramadol and 20,000 tablets of diazepam.
In Bauchi state, NDLEA officers on patrol along Ningi-Kano Road on Wednesday, June 5, arrested a 20-year-old lady, Hasana Usman, with 25 blocks of cannabis sativa that weighed 28.2kg.
In Yobe, the anti-narcotics officers nabbed a 42-year-old Ali Mohammed along Kano-Potiskum Road with 19,000 pills of tramadol 225mg concealed in a black sack and the suspect’s travelling bag. (GBN)
