The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit Zone C, said it intercepted contrabands with a duty paid value of N510.92 million between July 15 and September 15, 2024.<\/p>\n
The zone covers the six states in the South-South geopolitical zone and the five states in the Southeast geopolitical zone.<\/p>\n
This is contained in a statement by the Public Relations Officer, NCS, Zone C, Jerry Attah, to journalists on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
According to the statement, Comptroller Michael Ugbagu, NCS, Zone C, gave the statistics while showcasing the seized contraband to relevant regulatory agencies at the Government Warehouse in Edo State.<\/p>\n
Mr Ugbagu said that the zone also recovered the sum of N25.57 million from demand notices raised based on some infractions noticed, making a cumulative sum of N536.49 million recorded within the months under review.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe DPV was derived from our seized goods, which include 49,699 sachets of various brands of tramadol and 3,350 bottles of various cough syrups with codeine without a NAFDAC number. 1,015 sacks of dry donkey meat and skin, 75 jumbo bales of second-hand clothing, 463 cartons of foreign spaghetti, 269 pieces of used pneumatic tires, and 56 cartons of smuggled foreign tomato paste.<\/p>\n
\u201cMore worrisome is the interception of 49,699 sachets of various brands of tramadol and 3,350 bottles of various cough syrups with codeine without NAFDAC registration numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n
He noted that the cough syrup with codeine and tramadol without NAFDAC registration numbers, if not intercepted, could have had adverse effects on youths.<\/p>\n
He added that the items were mostly intercepted along the Ewu-Okada\/Benin expressways based on credible intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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