Customs hands over N43.5bn seized drugs, drones, expired goods in Lagos

The Nigeria Customs Service has handed implicit intercepted narcotics, controlled pharmaceuticals, drones and expired products with a combined worth of N43.5 cardinal to applicable authorities agencies.

The Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adeniyi, handed implicit the seized narcotics to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, portion the controlled and expired pharmaceutical products were transferred to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, on Thursday.

Speaking during the handover astatine the Apapa Port successful Lagos, Adeniyi said the seizures underscored the broader responsibilities of the Customs Service beyond gross generation.

According to him, Customs plays a captious relation successful securing the proviso chain, protecting Nigeria’s borders and ensuring that goods entering the state bash not endanger nationalist information oregon nationalist health.

He said transgression networks were progressively attempting to determination narcotics, restricted instrumentality and expired products done morganatic consignments by resorting to mendacious declarations, agents and organised syndicates operating wrong ports.

Adeniyi explained that immoderate of the concealment techniques progressive hiding narcotics wrong vehicles, placing drugs beneath household items and declaring restricted instrumentality arsenic mean electro...