The Nigerian Customs Service, Area 2 Command in Onne, Rivers State in collaboration with the office of the National Security Adviser has destroyed about 60 containers of substandard and illegally imported pharmaceutical products worth over N100bn.
The destruction took place at the Rivers State Waste Management dump site along the Port Harcourt Airport Road on Wednesday.
Speaking at the site of the operation, Assistant Controller General of Customs from the Enforcement, Inspection and Investigation Department of the Nigerian Customs Service, Timi Bomodi, said it was a joint operation carried out by a multiagency committee set up by the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu.