{"id":1432,"date":"2019-08-16T23:32:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2019-08-16T23:34:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:34:23","slug":"customs-seizes-n5b-tramadol-other-drugs-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/16\/customs-seizes-n5b-tramadol-other-drugs-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs Seizes N5b Tramadol, Other Drugs in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Ismail Aniemu <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Operatives of Nigeria Customs Service Strike Force have seized tramadol and other drugs worth over N5b in a Sallah holiday patrol in Lagos<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Briefing newsmen at the Customs Training College in Lagos, Spokesman \nfor the service, Joseph Attah disclosed that the drugs were being moved\n on Sunday during recent Eid El Kabir Muslim celebration <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Attah, a Deputy Comptroller of Customs said \u201d Operating on the \nerroneous belief that festive period is a time of merriment and less \nvigilance, smugglers of illicit drugs attempted to move their deadly \ndrugs from Lagos to other part of the country<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cOn Sunday, August 13,2019 at about 2am, the operatives of \nHeadquarters Strike Force intercepted one truck laden with dreaded \ncodein ,tramadol and other controlled pain killers along Maryland, \nIkeja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAlready,the Controller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim \nAli(Rtd) has directed thorough investigation with a view to bringing all\n those connected to the drugs to justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cMeanwhile evacuation of the drugs to the Federal Operations Unit has commenced\u201d Attah said<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that the drugs which have no National Agency for Food Drug \nAdministration and Control (NAFDAC) numbers are estimated to be loaded \nin 21 trucks<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further investigations, according to him, led customs operatives to a\n warehouse where the drugs were stocked with intent to move them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aside tramadol , he said the seizures includes codein, controlled pain relievers and other unregistered medicines <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Usman Yahaya,the officer in charge of the team said efforts are on to\n arrest the smugglers and anyone connected with the smuggling of the \ndrugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are investigating and will get to the root of the matter. We will leave no stone unturned to get the perpetrators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAside these trucks we have here, there are many other drugs in the \nwarehouse which our men have sealed awaiting full evacuation of all the \ndrugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Customs recently carried out destruction of similar drugs worth over N14b in Ogun State in collaboration with NAFDAC,Nigerian Army and other collaborating agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Journal online<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By Ismail Aniemu Operatives of Nigeria Customs Service Strike Force have seized tramadol and other drugs worth over N5b in a Sallah holiday patrol in Lagos Briefing newsmen at the Customs Training College in Lagos, Spokesman for the service, Joseph Attah disclosed that the drugs were being moved on Sunday during recent Eid El Kabir […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,173],"tags":[99,110,350],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-news-feature","tag-customs","tag-lagos","tag-tramadol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}