CURRENT REPORT BLOG On Saturday night, two suspects were taken into custody after Lagos State Police Command officers from the Okokomaiko Division stopped a Volkswagen LT bus that was carrying 70 cartons of expired medications.
This was disclosed in a statement posted on Benjamin Hundeyin’s X account, the command’s public relations officer.
Seventy cartons of Feed Fine Cyproheptadine Caplets 4g with an expiration date of 2016 were discovered at 5:40 p.m. at Afromedia, when the officers halted the suspicious vehicle for a search, according to Hundeyin.
The two bus passengers admitted that they were bringing outdated medications to a person in Alaba so that the expiration dates could be altered before the items were transported to Port Harcourt.
He wrote, “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.
“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.”
