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By Christopher Oji
The Lagos State Police Command has stepped up manhunt for a businessman who brought in drugs that have expired since 2016 to the state .
Already, two suspects conveying the drugs to Alaba International Market where they would repackaged and the expiry date change have been arrested.
The suspects, the drugs and the vehicle they used in conveying the dangerous drugs are presently in the police custody.
According to a senior Police officer who spoke on the condition of anonymity as he was not supposed to speak with the press, a patrol team from Okokomaiko Division at the weekend ,stopped a Volkswagen LT bus at Afromedia.
The officers searched the vehicle and found 70 cartons of Feed Fine Cyproheptadine Caplets 4g, with expiry date of 2016.
“The two occupants of the vehicle:Augustine Egemoye, 60,and Innocent Eremosele, 35, were promptly arrested and they have confessed they were taking the expired drugs to somebody in Alaba who would change the expiry dates .
” They said that after repackaging the drugs, the man would thereafter proceed with the drugs to Port-harcourt where they would be sold”.
Lagos State Police Publlic Relations Officer (PPRO) SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said the suspects;drug and the vehicle are currently in the police custody, while efforts were on to arrest the owner of the drugs, the individual altering expiry dates and other indicted persons.
