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Vallo57:
Police arrest suspected fake insecticide manufacturers

Written by Olalekan Olabulo

Police, in Lagos State, have arrested three members of a gang that have, in the past past few years, been flooding Lagos and its neighbouring states with fake and adulterated insecticide products .

The three members of the gang were at the weekend arrested by officers from Ilemba Hausa Divisional police station after a raid on the gang’s hideout at Adededola Street Sabo Oniba , Ajangbadi area of the state.

The gang members , Frank Uba , Atumodu Akubue and Christian Agwu have since confessed their involvement in the illicit act of economic sabotage and risk to the lives of several millions of Nigerians .

The gang was in the habit of buying empty cans of used insecticide products and refilling the cans with counterfeit chemical substances through the aid of a gas cylinder and other equipment.

The image maker in charge of the state police command, Mr. Frank Mba while parading the suspects on Monday stated that policemen from Ilemba Hausa police station, while acting on intelligence information, invaded the premises , where the counterfeit products were being manufactured .

Mba further stated that equipments and other accessories being used by the gang including gas cylinders , empty cans of Raid Kill It , Baygon , Rambo Mobil and other insecticides and Easy On liquid spray starch were recovered from the criminal hideout .

Frank Uba, while speaking with the Nigerian Tribune confessed to have actively participated in the illicit act but claimed that he was introduced into the “ business “by Otumodu, a friend of his.

The 25-year-old suspect , who claimed to be second-hand cloth seller in Ajangbadi while admitting that he was quite aware of the implication of the deadly business stated that he had not been paid any money , since he joined the gang.

Uba informed the Nigerian Tribune that the gang bought its can from Hausa scavengers at the rate of N30 per can , while the cartons were sourced from different markets in the state .

Mba stated that the police, as part of the efforts to ensure a comprehensive investigation of the activities of the hoodlums, had sent samples of the counterfeit products to laboratories to ascertain the health implications of the product.

Link: http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/1058-police-arrest-suspected-fake-insecticide-manufacturers.html

sonya4all:
What ever u guys like to say abt ika can be said.I wonder what u guys want that u are trying 2 align the ika nation 2 igbos.We are not igbos and never can be igbos.God forbid.What the names your calling are names that igbo men who married from ika gave their kids.My great grand parents are edos and they came from benin.I think i need 2 clear all these misconceptions by creating another threat abt our history especially umunede.Tnks

*jona:
Accra Ghana.

K4:
@Bandit C.  The gullibility of some Nigerians is simply amazing. You’ve clearly shown yourself to be nothing but a , backside.

Now let me tell you a few home truths. The GDP of a country is measured by the totality of wealth generated within that nation space. We all know virtually nothing is produced in Nigeria these days. Who dash them common electricity? As a matter of fact, virtually every single item used in Nigeria is imported, including toothpicks. And that is why you see all those ships lined up at Apapa and Tin Can ports for weeks waiting to berth.And that is why most companies are moving to Ghana.

The only phenomenon keeping Nigeria afloat at this time is oil industry, which is dominated by Western firms. I wonder what happened to the groundnuts pyramids in Kano, the oil palm plantations in Yorubaland and the former Midwest? Thanks to oil, Nigerians don’t have to do anything-all they do is to gather in Abuja every month to collect their allocation from the federation account. Now, revenue from oil is huge factor in computing Nigeria’s GDP. I am sure you will not dispute that. By the way do you know Nigeria has made as much from oil as the United Arab Emirate? 

Regrettably, the fact that Nigerian earns billions of dollars annually in oil revenue tells only a small part of the story. The real story is that very few privileged Nigerians are the only ones enjoying the oil wealth. How else can you explain that fact that 90% of Nigerians survive on less than $2 a day? How can you explain the fact that with your so-called enormous GDP, unemployment is officially 80%? How else do you explain the fact that erosion is decimating the entire southeast? How do you explain the crumbling infrastructure? How do you explain the fact that students these days are either love-peddlers or armed robbers/cultists? How is that PHCN hardly provides electricity despite all of Nigeria’s “wealth”?

On paper, Nigeria it may appear Nigeria has “a huge GDP” but in reality the oil money ends up in the pockets of a few Nigerians and their foreign collaborators. So stop all the nonsense about GDP. It is about how you manage your resources, which Ghana has done a terrific job with. Why do you think hundreds of Nigerians are moving to Ghana these days? I think there are about 60 or so flights between Lagos and Accra.ABC transports and others are also doing brisk business.

You can say all you want, but the people will always vote with their feet. They will go to the country where they think living conditions are better and where things work. And that is exactly what is happening.

*jona:
[b]NDLEA arrests two suspected fake drugs importers at Seme Border
By Our ReporterPublished TodayNewsRating: Unrated

NDLEA National Drug Law Enforcement Agency(NDLEA),Seme Border Command has arrested two suspected fake drugs traffickers,Paul Ejiofor and Uchenna Okoye at Seme Border for importing counterfit items into the country. News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) gathered from a release signed by NDLEA Area Commander,Seme Border,Nicholas Ajaduruonye that ,while Paul Ejiofor was arrested for being in possession of large quantity of suspected fake pharmaceutical-Lonart DS(12kg),Uchenna Okoye with Manix and Quinine-500grams(6.2kg).Lonart is an Anti-Malaria drug, while Manix is a fertility drug for men.NAN reports that Ejiofor, a 22 -year old who imported the item from Benin Republic was arrested on January 16, Okoye, 28 years old who was apprehended on January 20, brought in the drugs from Ghana. The two suspects were arrested at Tamarc Control Point at Seme Border.

However,NDLEA has transfered the suspected fake items to the Co-Ordinator of Seme Command of the National Food and Drugs Administration and Control(NAFDAC), Stanley Atabor for futher investigation and laboratory analysis.Transfering the items to NAFDAC,Ajaduruonye pledged total collaboration with the organisation in the fake drugs war."I hereby transfer these two suspects and their exhibit to you.This is forwarded for your further necessary action, please, "he said. Speaking with NAN, the NAFDAC Coordinator assured that investigation through laboratory analysis would be carried out,whilethe suspects would be prosecuted."We are going to trace the drugs to their countries of origin because they are fake and substandard items unfit for consumption in the country," he said.He said that NAFDAC would continue to sustain the war against fake drugs to save Nigerians from the negative implications of such practice


http://thenationonlineng.net/web2/articles/34511/1/NDLEA-arrests-two-suspected-fake-drugs-importers-at-Seme-Border/Page1.html[/b]

Beaf:
[size=14pt]South African minister's wife on cocaine charges[/size]
The wife of South Africa's intelligence minister has appeared in court accused of recruiting female 'mules' to smuggle cocaine into the country.

By Jane Flanagan in Cape Town
Published: 3:25PM GMT 30 Jan 2010
Sheryl Cwele: South African minister's wife on cocaine charges

[b]Sheryl Cwele, herself a high ranking local government official, will remain in custody until a bail application in several weeks time.

The 50-year-old faces charges alongside a Nigerian man relating to procuring two women to smuggle drugs from Turkey and South America.

One of the women, who claims she was directly recruited by Cwele, will appear as the state's main witness, prosecutors said.

The opposition Democratic Alliance has demanded that the arrested woman's husband, State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele, be brought before Parliament and consider his position, claiming that Cwele may have used her husband's contacts to gather intelligence to cover up her activities.

Mr Cwele has denied all knowledge of any alleged drug trafficking.

Cwele's arrest comes months after an investigation by a local newspaper which linked her to the jailing in Brazil of a single mother who was found with 22lbs (9.2kg) of cocaine in her luggage, worth approximately £300,000.

Pietermaritzburg High Court heard that Cwele, who was arrested at her municipal office on Friday, faces three charges alongside Nigerian Frank Nabolis[/b] - one count of dealing in dangerous dependency-producing drugs and two counts of incitement to dealing in dangerous dependency- producing drugs, dating back to May and June 2008.

The charges relate to procuring Charmaine Moss to collect drugs in Turkey and another, Tessa Beetge, to smuggle 9kg of cocaine from South America.

Prosecutors said they would oppose an application for bail.

In a statement, the Democratic Alliance, said: "This is disturbing news and raises a number of serious questions regarding the minister.

"We believe that he must demonstrate to the South African public that he is in no way compromised by this matter; if he fails to do so, he ought to stand down from his position right away."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/7111899/South-African-ministers-wife-on-cocaine-charges.html