Officers from the Okokomaiko Division of the Lagos State Police Command intercepted a Volkswagen LT bus loaded with seventy cartons of expired drugs on Saturday evening, leading to the arrest of two suspects. Benjamin Hundeyin, the command’s Public Relations Officer, shared this information in a statement on Sunday.
The interception took place at Afromedia around 5:40 pm when the officers, during a routine search, discovered seventy cartons of Feed Fine Cyproheptadine Caplets 4g with an expiry date of 2016. The two individuals in the bus confessed that they were transporting the expired drugs to someone in Alaba, intending to change the expiry dates before taking the drugs to Port Harcourt for sale.
Benjamin Hundeyin provided details, stating, “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.”
He continued, “Suspects, drug, 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.”
This incident echoes a similar event reported by some dailies in August 2023 when the Kano State Police Command confiscated 820 cartons of suspected fake and expired drugs at Mallam Kato Market in the Fagge Local Government Area of the state.
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