Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have intercepted 6,125 cartons of codeine syrup containing 1,050,000 bottles of the opioid worth over N7.35 million in street value at the Port Harcourt Ports complex, Onne, Rivers State.
The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, confirmed this in a statement he issued on Sunday.
Babafemi revealed that the seizure, made from six containers on June 29, 2024, was the third of such in the past four weeks.
He said this followed credible intelligence and diligent tracking of the consignments from their port of departure by a special operations unit of the NDLEA, which worked in partnership with the Port Harcourt Ports Command of the Agency and other security agencies, including the Nigeria Customs Service, for a 100 percent joint examination of the targeted containers.
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At the end of the joint examination of the six containers, a total of 6,125 cartons containing 1,050,000 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 157,500 kilograms were recovered on Saturday.
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