The Comptroller-General of Customs, Hammed Ali said the service destroyed various pharmaceutical products including tramadol with a Duty Paid Value of 14.7 billion naira.
Ali said this when the Joint Committee on Drugs destruction of the Nigeria Customs Service with the other sister agencies destroyed consignments of tramadol and other illicit drugs at a dump site in Shagamu, Ogun.
He urged Nigerians to support the Federal Government in the fight against importation of illicit drugs.
Ali, who was represented by the Assistant Comptroller-General of Customs, Kathleen Ekekezie, Zonal Coordinator of Customs, Zone “A” Lagos, commended the efforts of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control NAFDAC and other sister agencies represented at the site.
According to him, both the customs and NAFDAC have
an enforcement of drugs department, noting that the department was carved out
of both agencies for synergy on their primary assignment.
