NIGERIA Customs Service,
Federal Operations Unit, Zone
“C”, Owerri, Imo State says it has seized two trucks carrying
843 cartons of fake drugs and another containing furniture and
furniture components with a Duty Paid Value of N226,830,000.

It was also said that the cartons of imported fake drugs
comprised 696 packs of fake Lubumol and 153 packs of
Tramodol analgesics, amounting to a DPV of N163,260,000.

Briefing journalists at the premises of the NCS Imo-Abia
Command, Owerri, where the exhibits were displayed, the
Customs Area Controller, Comptroller David Dimka, said the
consignments were confiscated on Eleme-Aba road on
September 22, 2015.

He further said officers and men of the unit, who monitored the
nefarious activities of the die-hard smugglers, equally seized
303 cartons of glass dining table, 1,936 pieces of side stool with
a DPV of N63,120,000 .

Dimka warned that the NCS would ensure smugglers and their
collaborators were flushed out from their hideouts in the
country.

“We are worried at the upsurge of smuggling in this country
despite the obvious penalties for culprits. The NCS is not
sleeping and will ever remain awake to its responsibilities and
the persistent cases of smuggling shows how terrible, greedy,
and deviant people can be.

“Since the smugglers have learnt how to fly without perching,
we, with the NCS have also learnt how to shoot without
missing,” Dimka said.

Dimka handed over the drugs to the Director-General of the
National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control,
Dr. Paul Orhii, through the Imo State Coordinator, Mr.
Mmamel Victor, for further investigation and action.

He said the driver of the truck conveying the drugs had been
arrested and was being investigated.