Fake pharmacist arrested with six cartons of codeine in Katsina

Nura Aliyu, a fake pharmacist and drug dealer has been arrested by the police, for dealing on codeine. He was arrested and paraded with six cartons of suspected codeine syrup barely weeks after the Federal Government banned the product.

Mohammed Wakili, the state Commissioner of Police, CP, said he was arrested along Senator Abba Ali Road by Mohd Dikko Stadium.

DSP Gambo Isah, the Police Public Relations Officer who represented the CP said, “He was stopped and during Police search, this quantum of syrup suspected to be codeine was recovered in his vehicle.”