The Kano/ Jigawa Customs Area Command has intercepted 185 cartons of unregistered and expired drugs worth over N200 million.
The Command’s Comptroller, Sulaiman Pai Umar made the disclosure at while handing over the items to officials of NAFDAC in Kano on Thursday.
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He said the fake drugs including “AK47” which would have been sold to unsuspectinmg members of the Public, were seized during one of its operations in the area.
According to him, the arrest of the expired drugs was as a result of the collaboration and synergy that exist among all the security agencies in the state.
“The patronage and consumption of unregistered/ hard drugs are of great concern due to its consequences on our teeming youths.
“Most of these criminals acts are carried out under the influence of these hard drugs and we will continue to fight at all times,” Umar said.
The Comptroller said the area had also within the last three months seized smuggled items with Duty Paid Value of over N41 million.
He some of the seized items included 707 bags of 50kg of foreign rice, 155 bales of second hand clothes, 130 cartons of spaghetti and 231 cartons of Milky creamer.
Other were six sacks of snuff made in Ghana, 29 cartons of couscous, 10 cartons of Tiger batteries and 30 packs of Mosquito coils,among others.
He, however expressed concern that some Nigerians still indulged in smuggling despite the wide awareness of the threat smuggling poised to the nation’s security and economy.
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Earlier in his remarks, the NAFDAC State Coordinator, Shaba Muhammad commended the Customs Area Command for intercepting the drugs saying the drugs would have gone into circulation it they were not seized.
He warned drugs dealers to desist from buying and selling unregistered and expired drugs as anyone caught would be arrested and prosecuted.
