By : Adeosun Ewatomi
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted 162,351 bottles of codeine-based syrup from two containers at the Apapa seaport in Lagos. This was contained in a statement by the NDLEA Spokesman, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in Abuja.
Babafemi said that NDLEA operatives made the arrest during a joint examination of the two containers with the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and other security agencies on October 15. They also recovered 7,200,000 pills of Royal 225mg Tapentadol and Carisoprodol worth over N3.6 billion in street value from a watch-listed container from India at the Port Harcourt Port Complex, Onne, Rivers, on Tuesday, October 15.
In the same container, 780 cartons of chlorphenamine containing 15,600,000 million pills of the opioid were also recovered. From two other watch-listed containers searched at the Onne port, a total of 337,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup worth over N2.3 billion were recovered on Tuesday, October 15, and Thursday, October 17. The total value of the seized Tapentadol, Carisoprodol, and Codeine consignments at the two seaports is over N7 billion.
Additionally, a 33-year-old suspect was arrested along the Bauchi-Jos road with 76,600 pills of tramadol concealed in false compartments of his Toyota Sienna vehicle. In Ondo state, three suspects were arrested at Afo village where 672kg of marijuana was seized, and in Edo state, a raid at Illushi forest led to the destruction of 10,590.36kg of cannabis spread on 4.236144 hectares of farmland, with two suspects aged 65 and 35 apprehended.
In Lagos, NDLEA operatives arrested a suspect with 3kg of methamphetamine and 1.90kg of cannabis along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, and another 241kg of the same substance was recovered at Gbaji, Badagry area of the state. A suspected meth cook was also nabbed at Abule Osun with 265 grams of methamphetamine and various quantities of precursor chemicals for the manufacture of methamphetamine.
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