Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted two containers with 1,596 cartons of codeine-based syrup containing 319, 200 bottles of the opioid worth N2,234,400,000 in street value
A statement issued by the NDLEA’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi on Sunday said the containers came from Mundra port in India.
He said the codeine were recovered from the containers during a joint examination with other port stakeholders at the Tincan seaport in Lagos on Friday, 23rd August, 2024.
In Lagos, Babafemi disclosed that a suspect Godwill Davidson was on Wednesday 21st August arrested with 3,834 bottles of codeine syrup; 5,200 pills of Co-Codamol; and 11, 880 tablets of Rohypnol in Mushin area of the state, while another suspect, Yahaya Ibrahim, 23, was nabbed by operatives along Okene-Lokoja-Abuja expressway, Kogi State same day with 42,000 pills of tramadol coming from Asaba, Delta State enroute Potiskum, Yobe State.
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