NDLEA intercepts over 1m bottles of codeine from India

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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have  once more  intercepted  any other  batch  of 7  bins  bearing 1,229,  four hundred  bottles of the codeine  really well worth  over N9,835,200,000 shipped from India at Onne ports in Rivers State.

This  improvement  got here  slightly  3  weeks after seizing 6,  one hundred twenty five  cartons of codeine syrup containing 1,050,000 bottles of the opioid  really well worth  over N7, 350,000,000 in  avenue  value,  on the  Port Harcourt Ports complex, Onne.

According to a  assertion  signed  via way of means of  the NDLEA's Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, on Friday, the  state-of-the-art  seizure  become  made on Thursday.

He said, "This seizure is the fourth and  closing  set of such consignments  which have been  beneath the watchlist of the Agency's Maritime Special Operations Unit Targeting Team, which  labored  in partnership with the Port Harcourt Ports Command of the Agency and  different  protection  companies  inclusive of  the Customs Service for a  one hundred  in line with  cent joint  exam  of the  focused  bins .


"This  observed  credible intelligence and months of diligent  monitoring  of the consignments from their port of departure. At the joint  exam  of the  bins  with  different  protection  companies  on Thursday, all seven  bins  had been  discovered  bearing  a complete  of 8,774 cartons of codeine-  primarily based totally  cough syrup with 1,229,  four hundred  bottles weighing 184,410 kilogrammes.

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"A breakdown of the shipments that  got here  from India  through  the Maersk Vigo Vessel  indicates  that the  field  marked SEKU 6439421 has 875 cartons with 175,000 bottles of codeine weighing 26,250kg."

The  assertion  delivered  that  4  different  bins  contained 175,000 bottles of the  equal  substance  every  further  to  different  objects  together with  chilli cutters, cartons of hyregra  pills  and diclofenac used to  masks  the shipments.


In his  reaction  to the  state-of-the-art  seizure, the Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig Gen Buba Marwa (retd.) praised the  help  acquired  from  different  stakeholders  on the  ports that enabled the seamless and  a success  operations  withinside the  route  of  concentrated on  the shipments.

"The operation, which had inflicted heavy losses  at the  cartels  at the back of  the shipments has  similarly  degraded their  potential  and  economic  base," he said.

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