By Gbemiga Olamikan.
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have done wonders again as they have intercepted six thousand one hundred and twenty-five (6,125) cartons of codeine syrup containing one million and fifty thousand (1,050,000) bottles of the opioid worth over seven billion three hundred and fifty million naira (N7, 350,000,000.00) in street value, at the Port Harcourt Ports complex, Onne, Rivers state.
This was disclosed by Femi Babafemi Director, Media & Advocacy of NDLEA Headquarters. He said the seizure figure was made from six containers arrested on Saturday 29th June 2024. Noted that that was the third of such in the past four weeks following credible intelligence and diligent tracking of the consignments from their port of departure by a special operations unit of NDLEA, which worked in partnership with the Port Harcourt Ports Command of the Agency and other security agencies including the Customs Service for a 100 percent joint examination of the targeted containers.
He revealed that 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
