Officers from the Okokomaiko Division of the Lagos State Police Command intercepted a Volkswagen LT bus on Saturday evening, loaded with seventy cartons of expired drugs, leading to the arrest of two individuals.
The Lagos State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, shared this development in a statement via his official handle on Sunday.
The interception occurred at 5:40 pm at Afromedia when officers, during a routine search, stopped the suspicious vehicle and discovered seventy cartons of Feed Fine Cyproheptadine Caplets 4g, all bearing an expiry date of 2016.
According to Hundeyin, the two occupants of the bus confessed to transporting the expired drugs to an individual in Alaba with the intention of altering the expiry dates. Subsequently, the drugs were intended to be taken to Port Harcourt for sale.
“At about 5:40 pm yesterday, a patrol team from Okokomaiko Division stopped and searched a Volkswagen LT bus at Afromedia.
Found in the bus were seventy cartons of Feed Fine Cyproheptadine Caplets 4g, all with an expiry date of 2016.
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.
Suspects, drugs, and the vehicle are currently in custody.
Efforts are on to arrest the owner of the drugs, the individual altering expiry dates, and other indicted persons.”
