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Customs Impounds Drones, Military Wares, Pharmaceuticals

By Anne Ejuka


The Nigeria  Customs Service has handed over 679 sets of drones and 638 packets of military wares which it intercepted to the Nigerian Army in Lagos.

While the value of the drones and military wares were put at N379,203,818.00 million the value of the different brands of illicit pharmaceuticals were put at N2.824 billion.

The illicit drugs were said to have been imported into the country from India, Hong Kong, and Dubai and bearing different waybills and different names.

The owners of the seized items are currently on the run. However, efforts are on to apprehend owners of the illicit drugs as well as the drones and military wares.

Briefing media men yesterday before the handing over, the Customs Area Controller, Murtala Mohammed Area Command (MMAC), Sambo Dangaladima, said officers and men of the command are duty bound to ensure that the set objectives of the Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (RTD) is achieved.

Dangaladima said in line with the set target, officers of the command worked assiduously round the clock and in synergy to tackle proliferation of arms and ammunition and military wares which, according to him, is against the internal security of the country.

“We are handing over a total of 679 sets of drones and 638 packets of various military wares valued at N379,203,818.00 to the Nigerian Army, 108 packets of tramadol (225mg) containing 4,492,650 tablets, valued at N2,823,950,000 and 78 packets of dry khat N376,125,000.00 to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). We are also handing over 54 packets of various types of non - compliant pharmaceutical products, valued at N310,240,458.00 to the National Agency For Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in accordance with the extant laws that govern the agencies and their responsibilities and interdepartmental cooperation.

“The drones and other military wares/uniforms were seized because they are on the exclusives of the military to import such items, the tramadol tablets (225mg) were seized because they are above the permitted threshold by law in Nigeria.

“While Dry Khat is totally prohibited, the non-compliant pharmaceutical products were seized because they are suspected to be fake drugs without NAFDAC registration/approval certificates.

“These items were imported with various Air Ways Bills (AWBs) at different dates/period from different ports of origin, en-route different ports to Lagos as final destination. We have on record 34 AWBS of Tramadol that are from India as port of Origin, 17 of them came into Lagos en-route Addis-Ababa. One came in enroute Hong Kong while the rest came from Addis-Ababa to Lagos as final destination” he added.

Dangaladima further revealed that the non-compliant pharmaceuticals are from Pakistan but that they came into Lagos through Dubai and Addis-Ababa.

The Chief of Staff, 81 Division of the Nigerian Army in charge of Lagos and Ogun State, Brig-Gen. Danlami Ndahi, who received the drones and military wares on behalf of the Nigerian Army stated that the importers of the items are enemies of the nation.

He said the proliferation of arms by criminals was becoming worrisome, noting that it is currently difficult to identify real soldiers from fake.


 

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