The Lagos State Police Command reported that on Saturday evening, officers from the Okokomaiko Division intercepted a Volkswagen LT bus carrying 70 cartons of expired pharmaceuticals and arrested two suspects.
On Sunday, the command’s Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, posted a statement on his X account revealing this.
According to Hundeyin, the discovery occurred at 5:40 p.m. at Afromedia, when cops stopped the suspicious vehicle for a search and discovered 70 boxes of Feed Fine Cyproheptadine Caplets 4g, all of which had an expiry date of 2016.
According to the confessions of the two bus passengers, they were delivering expired medications to an individual in Alaba to modify the expiry dates, after which the pills would be moved to Port Harcourt and sold.
“At around 5:40 p.m. yesterday, a police crew from Okokomaiko Division stopped and searched a Volkswagen LT bus in Afromedia.
“Found in the bus were seventy cartons of Feed Fine Cyproheptadine Caplets 4g, all with an expiry date of 2016,” according to the statement.
According to the statement, the two occupants of the vehicle, Augustine Egemoye’m’, 60, and Innocent Eremosele’m’, 35, confessed to transferring outdated medications to someone in Alaba who would modify the expiration dates before transporting the pills to Port-Harcourt for sale.
He stated that suspects, narcotics, and the car are currently in custody.
“Efforts are on to arrest the owner of the drugs, the individual altering expiry dates and other indicted persons,” according to the statement.
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