The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted 162,351 bottles of codeine-based syrup from two containers at the Apapa seaport in Lagos.
This is contained in a statement by its Spokesman, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in Abuja.
Babafemi said operatives of the agency made the arrest during a joint examination of two containers with men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and other security agencies on Oct. 15.
He said that 7,200,000 pills of Royal 225mg Tapentadol and Carisoprodol worth over N3.6bn in street value were recovered.
The spokesman also said the they were seized from a watch-listed container from India at Port Harcourt, Port Complex, Onne, Rivers on Tuesday October 15.
“In the same container, 780 cartons of chlorphenamine containing 15,600,000 million pills of the opioid, were also recovered.
“From two other watch-listed containers equally searched at the port in Onne, a total of 337,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup worth over N2.3 billion were recovered from them on Tuesday Oct. 15 and Thursday October 17.
“This brings the total value of the seized Tapentadol, Carisoprodol and Codeine consignments at the two seaports to over N7 billion, “he said.
