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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Area 2 Command, Onne in Rivers State has intercepted 20 containers carrying illicit drugs worth over N13. 5billion.
The outgone Controller of Area 11 Command, Onne, Comptroller Mohammed Babandede, paraded the containers and their contents in Onne yesterday.
Babandede, who handed over the leadership of the Command to his successor, Comptroller, Aliyu Alkali, said the intercepted containers were laden with 1,195,400 bottles of codeine syrup, 3,200,000 tablets of extra Diclofenac, 3,500,000 tablets of benzhexol, 1,633 cartons of laboratory equipment and 2,612,400 analgin injection packages.
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He identified other drugs as 239,400 packages of diluent ampoules of atesunate injection and 399,700 packages of diluent ampoules of expired aretemac injection.
Babandede said the drugs, which were imported from India, smuggled by concealing them under the disguise of regular imports of 6,720 pieces of chilly cutters, 192 cartons of bench vice, 30 pieces of ceiling fans, 479 pieces of plumbing materials, 6,048 pieces of blades and other items such as hoes, wall lights, bale of used clothes and gallons of sahala vegetable oil.
He said the country had struggled with the proliferation of counterfeit and substandard medication posing a significant risk to public health with potential fatal outcomes.
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