Another batch of seven containers bearing one million two hundred and twenty nine thousand four hundred bottles of the same substance worth over nine billion eight hundred and thirty five million two hundred thousand naira (N9,835,200,000.00), have been intercepted by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA operatives at the Onne ports. ..Read Full Article
The NDLEA said it comes barely three weeks after seizing six thousand, one hundred and twenty-five (6,125) cartons of codeine syrup containing one million and fifty thousand (1,050,000) bottles of the opioid worth over seven billion three hundred and fifty million naira (N7, 350,000,000.00) in street value, at the Port Harcourt Ports complex, Onne, Rivers state.
Femi Babafemi, NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, announced this in a statement issued on Friday.
Babafemi said the latest seizure made on Thursday is the fourth and last set of such consignments that have been under the watchlist of the Agency’s Maritime Special Operations Unit Targetting Team, which worked in partnership with the Port Harcourt Ports Command of the Agency and other security agencies, including the Customs Service for a 100 percent joint examination of the targeted containers.…Read Full Article
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