Tramadol and other illicit drugs worth N14.7 billion in 58 containers are said to have been destroyed in Ogun state by the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
Banned Tramadol and other fake/illicit drugs were intercepted at the various Customs formations in Lagos and other parts of the country, concise news reports.
At the destruction exercise at Sagamu dumpsite, Ogun State, yesterday, the Comptroller-General of Customs, Hameed Ali, condemned the activities of smugglers who import banned drugs and other harmful substances into Nigeria.
The Assistant Comptroller of Customs in charge of Enforcement, Inspection, and Investigation (E,I&I) Aminu Dahiru, who is the committee chairman, said the seizures have in no small way prevented social vices such as kidnapping, armed robbery, banditry and other associated crimes threatening the peace and security of the country.
In Ogun State, the exercise was witnessed by NAFDAC and ACG Dahiru, who lamented the drugs would have caused collateral damages allowed to be sneaked into the society via smuggling.
He explained that 58 containers of tramadol and other dangerous and unregistered pharmaceuticals with a duty paid value of N14,706,032,871 were seized by various commands of the Nigerian Customs Service.
He assured similar exercises would be carried out at the Kaduna, Port Harcourt and Bauchi zones of Nigeria Customs Service in due course.
He said, the destroyed drugs, constitute just meagre number among the numerous seizures, already handed over to NAFDAC and NDLEA for destruction in the past.
He noted that these quantities of seizures recorded by NCS officers, he noted, have not been without some cost of series of threats, attacks, maiming and even killings of officers.
