Nigerian Customs Intercepts Container Filled With Fake Drugs Declared as Used Vehicles

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The Tincan-Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Wednesday announced that it has intercepted two 40 feets containers of fake drugs with Nos.  MSKU 071916/0 and MRKU 256545/8, falsely declared as vehicles, cartons of makeup items and computer accessories.

The NCS in a statement yesterday said it has handed over the containers to officials of the National Agency for Foods, Drugs, Administration and Control (NAFDAC).

The discovery, the command stated, was sequel to the latest operational methodology adopted by it through profiling, cargo selectivity and system checks of the advance electronic manifest.

The Customs Area Comptroller, Bashar Yusuf, stated that the command is adopting these procedures to ensure that all imports are electronically monitored with a view to identifying non-compliant declarations and other infractions which could jeopardise the change ideology of the Service.

He stated that the containers were flagged following some discrepancies in the documentation and declaration made in the Single Goods Declaration (SGD) form C 2010, hence the need for further checks.

The area comptroller pointed out that the declarations made on SGD C-No. 13473 of 09-02-2017 and SGD C- No. 84118 of 24-08-2017 were at variance with the contents in the system bill of lading, which fuelled the suspicion.

He gave the importers names as J. S. Akuasosi Nigeria Enterprises Limited of No. 31 Balogun Street Amuwo Odofin, Lagos; Del-Dominion Gold Ventures of No. 5 Borno Crescent, Apapa also in Lagos; S. Chinax Services Nigeria Limited of No. 5 Industrial Road Port-Harcourt and Robby Concept Int’l Agency Limited of Mini Flat 4 Nnewi building Apapa, Lagos, as declarants.

“In view of this, I directed that the two containers be brought down to the enforcement unit for 100 per cent examination which revealed as follows: MSKU 071916/0, 240 Cartons of New Royal Tramadol Hydrochloride 225mg tablets.


Others are: “240 Cartons of Double Extra Strong Tramadol 200mg; 240 Cartons of Super Power Tramadol Hydrochloride; 70 Cartons of Ibamol-Diclofenac Sodium Capsules 50mg and 60 Cartons of Really Extra-Analgesique.”

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