FOU Customs Owerri Impounds N226million Fake Drugs, Furniture

The Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘C’ of the Nigeria Customs Service in Owerri says it has recorded various seizures comprising of a truck loaded with 843 cartons of fake drugs and another truck containing furniture and furniture components with a  combined Duty Paid Value of N226.38Million.
The cartons of imported fake drugs are: 696 cartons of Lubumol and 153 cartons of Tramadol Analgesic, with a Duty Paid Valueof N163, 260,000.00

The Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘C’ of the Nigeria Customs Service in Owerri says it has recorded various seizures comprising of a truck loaded with 843 cartons of fake drugs and another truck containing furniture and furniture components with a  combined Duty Paid Value of N226.38Million.
The cartons of imported fake drugs are: 696 cartons of Lubumol and 153 cartons of Tramadol Analgesic, with a Duty Paid Valueof N163, 260,000.00
The Customs Area Controller in charge of the Unit, Comptroller Victor Dimka who disclosed this to newsmen at the Imo-Abia Command of the Customs in Owerri last week where he showcased the exhibits, said that they were confiscated along the Eleme/Aba road on the 22nd of September 2015.
Comptroller Dimka said that the driver of the truck conveying the offensive drug had been arrested and is being investigated.
He said that the eagle-eye men of the unit who have traditionally kept vigil on the nefarious activities of the die-hard smugglers also seized 303 cartons of glass dining table, 1,936 pieces of side stool, both with a DPV of N63,120,000 on the same axis.
He warned that the Nigeria Customs Service would never rest on its oars until smugglers and their collaborators are flushed out from their hideouts in all nooks and crannies of the country.
“We are worried at the upsurge of smuggling in this country despite obvious shift penalties for culprits. The NCS is not sleeping and will ever remain awake to its responsibilities and the persistent cases of smuggling shows how terrible, greedy and deviant people can be; and since the smugglers have learnt to fly without perching, we (the NCS) have also learnt to shoot without missing” he warned.
Dimka subsequently handed over the fake deadly drugs to the Director General of the National Agency for Foods Drugs, Administration and Control (NAFDAC);  Dr. Paul Orhii who was represented by the agency’s  Imo State Coordinator, Mr. Mmamel Victor on behalf of the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Ahmed Ali (Rtd.) for further investigations.