By Tolulope Popoola
As part of efforts to eradicate and curb the menace of illegal drug practices in Nigeria, the Apapa Area Command of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency has seized 19,703.25 kgs of hard drugs, worth over N6 billion between January and June 20 in the year 2022.
Commander of the Apapa area of the agency, Ameh Inalegwu, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Saturday.
Ameh stated that the command is ever ready to ensure that they wipe illegal drug dealers completely out of the nation’s maritime space.
In his words, he says, “this is already validated by the numerous seizures recorded in a few months”.
He further stated that the drugs seized within seven days include 1,518kgs of Tafrodol and Tramadol weighing 3,553 kilograms.
“This is in addition to the seizures of cough syrup with Codeine in January, 40.25 Kgs of the same cough syrup with Codeine in February, 12 kgs of another cough syrup with Codeine in March”, Ameh said.
The command in addition recovered 350 grams of Cocaine and 150 grams of Heroin in the month of March.
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