CUSTOM SIEZE N7.3bn TRAMADOL FROM INDIA
The Nigeria Customs Service has disclosed that it has intercepted 40 containers loaded with Tramadol and other related drugs imported from India. The Tramadol is said to worth N7, 318, 978, 067. 00., approximately N3.7bn.
According to the Comptroller-General Nigeria Customs Service, Col Hameed Ali, the suspects, including some of the Customs officers who are aware of the movement have been arrested for further investigations.
Tramadol and its Side Effects
He said,
“The service is not only making concerted efforts to ensure that only maximum revenue is collected, but also to safeguard the security and well-being of the citizenry”.
He continued;
“We are all aware of the dangers that the deliberate non-compliance to import and export procedures pose to our nation as importers bring in all manner of items which put the security and health of the nation at great risk”.
“It is in line with the determination to fight this ugly trend that the Apapa Command of the service intercepted forty 40- foot containers, mostly from India, laden with tramadol and other pharmaceutical products with a Duty Paid Value of N7, 318,978,065.00.”
The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, in a statement, estimated the product to be worth N193.3bn.
The Comptroller-General, Ali, has described the subsequent investigation about this as a very serious one while indicating that all the officers who were aware of the importation have been arrested.
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