Police nab suspects with expired
drugs
Lagos State Police Command from the Okokomaiko Division has
intercepted a Volkswagen LT bus loaded with 70 cartons of expired drugs and
arrested two suspects.
A statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Benjamin
Hundeyin, on his X handle said, the discovery was made at Afromedia, where the
officers stopped the suspicious vehicle for a search, and found 70 cartons of
Feed Fine Cyproheptadine Caplets 4g, which all had an expiry date of 2016.
According to the
confession of the two occupants in the bus, they were transporting the expired
drugs to an individual in Alaba to change the expiry dates after which the
drugs would be taken to Port Harcourt for sale.
According to the
statement, the two occupants of the vehicle, Augustine Egemoye ‘m’ aged 60, and
Innocent Eremosele ‘m’ aged 35, confessed they were taking the expired drugs to
somebody in Alaba who would change the expiry dates and thereafter proceeded with
the drugs to Port-Harcourt to be sold.
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