Customs hands over N223.5m worth of banned chemicals to NAFDAC in Kebbi

The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Kebbi State Command, has handed implicit cultivation chemicals worthy N223.54 cardinal to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, successful Birnin Kebbi.

The Area Controller of Customs, Mahmoud Matawale Ibrahim, disclosed this during a property league astatine the bid office successful Birnin Kebbi.

Ibrahim said the seized products included 500 cartons of Rezim Herbicide, 708 cartons of Gramosun, 1,291 cartons of Sun-Paraquat, 1,990 cartons of Gbeledzo and 1,620 cartons of Gramostrong.

He said the products were intercepted astatine assorted locations wrong the Kebbi Area Command’s jurisdiction.

The bid besides handed implicit cannabis sativa valued astatine N2.52 cardinal to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.

It further transferred 37 rounds of AK-47 ammunition and 12 unrecorded cartridges for pump-action firearms to the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons, NCCSALW.