By David Orji
The Nigerian Police force has said its operatives have arrested two men who were in possession drugs with expired dates.
The two were caught on their way to change the expiry dates of Feed Fine Cyproheptadine Caplets 4g, all with expiry date of 2016.
Spokesman of the Lagos command, Benjamin Hundeyin, said that the men were arrested with seventy cartons of the drugs.
“At about 5:40pm 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 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 proceed with the drugs to Port-harcourt to be sold,” the police said
He said while the suspects, drug and the vehicle are currently in custody, the command is making efforts to arrest the owner of the drugs, the individual the individual altering expiry dates and other indicted persons altering expiry dates and other indicted persons.”
Incidents of drugs adultration and expiry dates changes are common within the drugs distribution sector in the country.