The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has intercepted two containers of imported opioids with a street value of N4.3 billion at the Port Harcourt Ports complex, Onne, Rivers State and Tincan, Lagos State.
The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, disclosed the seizures in a statement he issued on Sunday,
Babafemi said that the drugs were intercepted on November 21 during a joint examination with men of the Nigeria Customs Service and other security agencies.
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He gave a breakdown of the seizures as a total of 168,000 bottles of codeine based syrup worth N1.1 billion in street value, recovered from one of the containers.
He added that the second one contained 4.5 million pills of super royal tramadol 225 milligrams valued at N3.2 billion.
According to Babafemi, this brings the combined value of both the codeine and tramadol consignments to N4.3 billion.
He further said that the NDLEA operatives also intercepted 92 parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis with a combined weight of 23.25 kilograms at the Tincan seaport in Lagos State.
He said that the drugs, seized on November 22, were concealed in two vehicles imported from Canada: a Nissan car and a GMC bus.
Babafemi said that the discovery was made during a joint examination of a container from Canada by NDLEA officers, men of the Nigeria Customs Service and other stakeholders.
