The Nigerian Customs
Service (NCS) has intercepted 40 by 40 feet containers laden with Tramadol and
other dangerous pharmaceutical products worth over N7.3billion.
A large number of the
dangerous drugs, NCS said, were imported into the country by some scrupulous
importers from India to endanger the health of the nation.
Attempt by the importers to
bribe Customs officers with over $400,000 (about N150million), to effect the
release of just one container out of the 40 seized, it was gathered, was
rebuffed by the officers.
Addressing reporters at the
Apapa command of the Service while displaying the dollars yesterday, its
Comptroller-General, Col. Hameed Ali (retd), said NCS has also impounded two
helicopters that can be used for nefarious activities.
One of the helicopters with
registration number SN-BLI, the Customs helmsman said, was intended for export,
and was concealed in container number PONU7789246, while the second helicopter,
a Cessna 182A, was imported into the country from the United States of America
for unknown assignment.
Ali said the first
helicopter was falsely declared as 388 bags of cashew nuts, while the second
was concealed in container number MRKU 4457663 before they were intercepted by
some vigilant and patriotic officers of the command.
Investigation, the CGC
said, was on-going to fish out the owners of the two helicopters. He said three
suspects with some Customs officers that were involved in the clearance of some
of the containers laden with Tramadol drugs from the port have been arrested.
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