The Nigeria Customs Service through its Comptroller- General, Adewale Adeniyi, has explained how it seized 11 containers of unregistered sex drugs, expired foodstuffs, and other contraband at the Apapa port in Lagos.

Adeniyi said the goods worth N921bn were those seized between January till date.

The Customs boss who was addressing journalists on Wednesday, stated that the 11 containers included five 40-foot containers, two 20-foot containers, and four additional seizures of loosely concealed contraband items.

According to him, five of the containers were carrying dangerous sex-enhancement drugs. He said the drugs had the potential to cause deaths if allowed to get into the domestic markets.

Adeniyi said the first 40ft container had 89 cartons of unregistered pharmaceutical products, while the second 40ft container carried 242 cartons of unregistered pharmaceutical products.

He said, “The third 40ft container had 1,001 cartons and packages of hydra-sildenafil citrate tablets. These are also lacking requisite NAFDAC registrations. The other 40ft container had 1,400 packages of chest and lungs beta plus big booty tablets, also unregistered. The fifth 40ft container had 805 packages of unregistered products.

“This one was falsely declared as a cosmetic powder. Then we also have a 20-foot container, which has expired margarine products. We have another 20ft container which has expired margarine products, 60 units of warrior drones.

Adeniyi revealed that the drones loaded in one of the containers had a duty paid value of N15.9bn and lacked the End User Certificate from the Office of the National Security Adviser.

Adding, he said, “We also intercepted another 53 units of different helicopter drones. These drones were intercepted for lack of an End User Certificate,, and it has a duty-paid value of N2.1m. We have 10 pieces of professional FM transceiver walkie-talkies. These are communication devices evacuated for lack of End-User Certificates,” he said.

Adeniyi particularly warned that an unchecked importation of unregulated sexual performance drugs could be responsible for health issues, such as cardiovascular complications and harmful drug interactions.