Last week, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) released a statement that it intercepted a 40-feet trailer with codeine and other illicit drugs in Lagos, but investigation by The ICIR reveals that the same trailer had earlier been impounded by the police after passing through customs.

The haulage truck, which still has the name of Dutch haulage company Centrum Transport and a Dutch registration number, was stopped and confiscated earlier in December by detectives under the IGP X-Squad from the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Alagbon in Ikoyi, Lagos State.

For days, the vehicle was parked at Alagbon with the tyres deflated until the evening of January 8 when the tyres of the truck were pumped again. By the next morning, the truck had disappeared.

In that moment of trying to move the trailer to their warehouse, officers of the Nigeria Customs Service and Nigeria Police Force suddenly appeared at the scene and argument of which agency to take possession of the trailer ensued.

Eventually, police took control as the truck was moved to the police’s Area D Command in Mushin.

Upon joint inspection of the goods in the trailer, it was discovered that it had cartons of Barcadin cough syrup with codeine and other illicit drugs.

This web of conspiracy and fraud is coming less than a year after the Federal Government had announced a ban on the production and importation of cough syrup containing codeine because of its addiction epidemic. The ban had actually followed a public outcry over the abuse of codeine in the country.

The suspects: Luke Mba, 38, and Falodun Gbenga, 40, were arraigned on January 3 with two-count charge of allegedly stealing pharmaceutical goods, rather the crime of importing illicit drugs into the country.

According to NAFDAC, the trailer was carrying Barcadin with codeine (cough syrup) – 588ctns x 200bottles x100ml.
Other drugs in the vehicle were: Feed Fine (Cyproheptadine caplet) – 44ctns x 24rolls x 10pks x 3blisters x10caplets, Really Extra (Diclofenac sodium tab) – 190ctns x 100boxes x 10pkts x 1x10caplets, and Afrodic (Diclofenac sodium cap) – 207ctns x 100boxes x 10pks x 1x10caplets.

See more: https://zenithnaija.com/how-customs-police-caught-and-released-truckload-of-codeine-after-receiving-bribes/

Codeine diet............

Anything is possible in the s**t hole as long as the almighty NAIRA is involved.

K

Don't do drugs
Does you no good

That's no surprise


80% of customs and police staff in NIGERIA are corrupt, receives bribe and do dirty works EVERY DAY.

Money has exchanged hands. Na only God go save person for this obodo Naija.

Na their way, they don spoil every institution, make dem dey deceive themselves, nothing dey work, after something is banned, u still collected bribe to let it go and later acted film to reclaim it.....

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I don't think there's anything shocking about police or custom receiving bribe. Until we deal with the root of our problem in this country we will never eradicate vices. A Secondary school security personnel (gate man) will collect bribe from student just to allow them leave school b4 the normal time of closure. That's where it starts from, then it grows into higher level until it gets to governors receiving bribe in exchange for contracts. Bribery now is a way of life in this part of the world.

Money Don Change Hand Nah

Custom nd police no differences poor uniform

it really hard to banned anything in 9ja

bcoz those who will still collect bribes to left such a stuff to still sell won't stop been fools n dat y Nigeria is still underdevelop

OlaSage:

Wow

What is wow?

Ibo and Yoruba collabo

Dora Akunyili is the only DG NAFDAC ever had.

Corruption!

Corruption everywhere

Same way elites smuggle weapons into Nigeria to slaughter Nigerians during and after the election.

W

Hmm

not a new thing

Gbenga! Educated development...

Interesting

after way dem don increase deir salaries ...why nah

OlaSage:
Make #50,000 to #70,000 weekly without referring by just doing simple online mail processing.
Proofs available.
Ask me how.

How ?

This is Nigeria........

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