The Federal Operations Unit, FOU, Zone A, of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has impounded expired drugs worth over N1.422 billion in the South West region between September 2022 and March 2023.
The Acting Controller in charge of FOU Zone A, Hussein Kehinde Ejibunu, said the drugs were allegedly imported into the country from India.
Ejibunu noted that all the drugs, which expired in November 2021, would have found their way into the open market if not for the reworked strategy employed by the Unit to block all areas of revenue leakages.
He said NAFDAC would conduct further investigations to unravel those behind the importation of the expired drugs.
The FOU also said it intercepted N694.5 million worth of contraband cargoes in March 2023.
It said the goods were allegedly being smuggled into the country from Benin Republic by criminal gangs.
