Police Finds Ammunition In Transit

The Enugu State Police Command says it has recovered 80 rounds of live cartridges hidden inside a bag in a mass transit bus.
A statement issued in Enugu by the command’s spokesman, Mr Ebere Amaraizu, said the cartridges were recovered by officers during a stop and search exercise on the Enugu-Onitsha expressway.
He said that the officers had flagged down a mass transit bus with registration number XD 472 NNE heading to Enugu from Onitsha.
Amaraizu said that while the search was going on, one of the occupants of the bus suspected to be the owner of the ammunition discretely ran into the bush.
He appealed to commuters, drivers and motor park owners to be wary of people who pose as passengers in parks while carrying dangerous items.
Amaraizu also called on members of the public to volunteer information that would lead to the arrest of individuals who constitute security threat, especially during the Yuletide.
Meanwhile, the National Agency for Foods and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Thursday destroyed fake and adulterated herbal products worth over N5 million in Enugu.
The NAFDAC Enugu State Coordinator, Mr Ikechukwu Okoye, who led a team that carried out the destruction, told newsmen that the exercise would deter counterfeiters from producing such unwholesome products.
He said that the manufacturer of the products had been apprehended by the agency and handed over to the police, while investigation was ongoing.
“The suspect operated an illegal factory along Okpara Avenue in the heart of Enugu metropolis, where he carried out the concocted mixture of herbal products and sold to unsuspecting members of the public,’’ Okoye said.
The NAFDAC coordinator said that the environment where the herbal products were being produced was hygienically unsafe.
“His hidden production site where he mixed the concoction is under a tree with a toilet beside it,’’ he said.
Okoye urged the public to join NAFDAC to rid the country of counterfeit, substandard and unwholesome products through prompt information on activities of dubious foods and drugs producers around them.