The Nigeria Customs Service says it has rejected $421, 000 bribe of forty containers of 40-ft loaded with tramadol worth over N70.3billion at Apapa Custom Command .
The rate of tramadol seizure by regulatory agencies had been on the rise since late 2017. On Thursday, November 17, 2018, NAFDAC disclosed that 23 out of 80 40-foot containers on its watch list since November 2017 were examined on Wednesday, November 14 and Thursday, November 15 and they contained tramadol.
The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, in a statement, estimated the product to be worth N193.3bn.
The Comptroller- General of Customs, Col Hameed Ali (retd), said on Thursday that three suspects, including Customs officers who cleared the containers had been arrested for further investigation.
In line with the determination to fight this ugly trend that the Apapa Command of the service intercepted forty 40- foot containers, mostly from India, laden with tramadol and other pharmaceutical products with a Duty Paid Value of N7, 318,978,065.00.”
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