Police arrest two suspects on mission to change date of 70 cartons of expired drug

The Lagos police command says it has arrested two suspects with 70 cartons of expired Cyproheptadine Caplets.

Benjamin Hundeyin, spokesperson of the Lagos police command, announced the development in a post on his X page on Sunday.

He said the suspects were arrested on Saturday at about 5:40pm by a patrol team from Okokomaiko police division.

The police spokesperson said the suspects confessed that they were taking the drugs with 2016 expiry dates to someone in the Alaba area of the state to change the dates.

“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,” Hundeyin said.

“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.

“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.”