NDLEA intercepts codeine shipment from India
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a consignment of 175,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup imported from India.
NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi said in Abuja on Sunday that the seizure was made on Friday during a joint examination by the agency, customs and other security agencies.
He said the seizure was coming barely a week after the agency seized a shipment of 175,000 bottles of the same substance at the Port Harcourt Port complex in Onne, Rivers state.
Mr Babafemi said the two seizures followed earlier intelligence, which made the agency request a 100 per cent examination of the shipment.
He also said the latest seizure of 875 cartons of codeine-containing 175,000 bottles was weighing 26,250kg.
In a related development, Mr Babafemi said officers of NDLEA’s Directorate of Operations and General Investigation on Wednesday, June 5, intercepted five different parcels containing illicit drugs.
He said the drugs were concealed in ladies’ clothes and synthetic hair en route to the United States and United Kingdom.
“Some of the seized drugs are 620 ampoules of pentazocine injection, promethazine and other opioids; they were seized at a courier firm in Lagos,” he said.
(NAN)
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