Lagos: Police, NDLEA, Customs seize 607 cartons of tramadol tablets

The Head of Public Affairs for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Jonah Achema has confirmed that the agency has seized 11,785,800 tramadol tablets in Lagos.

He made this disclosure in a statement on Wednesday. He added that the seized tramadol tablets were packed in a total of 607 cartons.

The statement quoted the Chairman, Muhammad Abdallah, as saying the interception was with the assistance and cooperation of the Customs Area Command, Apapa, Daily Post reports.

“This was discovered in another container number TCNU 9465832 belonging to the same suspect transferred to NDLEA by the Police.

“This is making it 3 containers used to carefully conceal illegally imported tramadol and other medicines to Nigeria,” he said.

He said recent discovery of more tramadol using the same route from Pakistan Asia – Hamburg, Europe – Nigeria showed the system of operation by the drug cartel to beat security operatives.

NAN reports that Police detectives in Apapa Area Command intercepted a 40-foot container laden with drugs suspected to be tramadol and codeine on August 6.

During investigation, another 40 foot container discovered had 255 cartons of different types of tramadol and other banned medicines on August 19.