The Ogun Area 1 Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has handed over 3,365 parcels and 75 sacks of Cannabis Sativa, alongside 88 cartons of codeine cough syrup intercepted by its operatives, to the authorities of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

The illicit drugs were part of significant seizures made by the command.

The Area Controller of Ogun 1 Area Command of NCS, Comptroller Mohammed Shuaibu, while showing newsmen around the seizures in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, disclosed that other intercepted contrabands included 2,145 bags—an equivalent of four trailer trucks—of foreign parboiled rice, each weighing 50 kg, illegally imported into Nigeria.

He put the Duty Payable Value (DPV) of the seized bags of rice at N279.5m.

Shuaibu further disclosed that the command was able to generate a total of N9.694m as revenue realised from baggage assessment, as well as auction sales of the earlier intercepted PMS “because of the highly inflamable nature of the item.

Speaking during the handing over of the items to NDLEA officials in the spirit of inter-agency cooperation, CAC Shuaibu said the items being handed over reflected the ongoing efforts of the command at curbing the distribution of illegal narcotics within the country.