NAFDAC seizes N107M really well worth of unlawful pills in Abuja raid 6
NAFDAC operatives
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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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