The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA) has recovered 636,600 bottles of codeine-based syrup worth N4.4 billion in street value, at Port-Harcourt Port Complex, Onne, Rivers State.

According to a statement issued by agency spokesman Femi Babafemi yesterday in Abuja, the drugs were intercepted in shipments from India on December 9, 11 and 13.
He said the seizures were made during a joint examination of four containers by NDLEA officers, men of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and other security agencies at the port.
This, Babafemi said, was made possible following processed credible intelligence on the shipments by the NDLEA operatives. He said, At the Port Harcourt Port Complex, Onne, Rivers state, no fewer than 636,600 bottles of codeine-based syrup worth N4.4billion in street value were intercepted in shipments from India.
According to Babafemi, the NDLEA top boss Buba Marwa commended the officers and men of the Onne area of the agency for the arrests and seizures.
Marwa said that the operational successes should show the drug barons and cartels that the Agency had the capacity and intelligence network to track their movements and their consignments even before getting to Nigeria.
He said the agency would continue to lose heavily if it failed to back-down on the criminal trade.