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(a) Any person who willfully obstruct Agency or any authorized officer of the
powers conferred on the Agency by the Act or
(b)
Fails to comply with any enquiry or requirement made by any authorized
officer in accordance with the provision of this Act shall be guilty of an
offence under this Act and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding 5years or to A fine of $20,000.00 or its
equivalent in Nigeria Naira or both imprisonment and fine
C. GUIDELINES ON NARCOTICS AND CONTROLLED DRUGS
In view of this, all psychotropic substances are referred to as controlled
drugs, which are classified as narcotics, while the ordinary drugs are not
controlled because these are none hard drugs.
1. All ordinary medicines must be displayed in the hospital cabin or locker on
a well arranged form and should be numbered for easy and proper
identification.
2. It is a breach of law (offence) if any ordinary medicines is found or
detected in a mix of controlled drugs, i.e. Captain’s cabin and vice-versa.
3. All controlled drugs are expected to be in the custody of the captain and
not medicines referred to as ordinary medicines in order to conform with
the provision of article “30” of 1961 convention of United Nations as
referred to as international regulations
4. All controlled drugs must be declared in a separate list, having their
headings as controlled drugs as “Narcotic list” and for the ordinary
medicines as “hospital inventory list” or medicine chest inventory list”.
5. All drugs should have a well designed manufacturer stamp indicating the
expiring and manufacturing date on it. Any form of hand printing on any
medicine will be viewed as total breakdown of law and order and shall be
compelled to face the laws squarely as provided on the said article.
6. All expired drugs or medicines are not allowed to be sighted on board.
7. All records of either controlled drugs or medicines are expected to be
recorded in the medicine log book and presented for check.
8. On no account shall drugs be brought ashore
9. It should be borne in mind that the article “30” of single convention on
“narcotics drugs control’ of 1961 frowns at theft and diversion of stocks of
controlled drugs. Therefore captains are to be held responsible if there
should be any contradiction of any form.
Note: 1, Section 8 subsection b-d (S,8 (b) of NDLEA Act cap 30 laws pof
federation as amended in 2004 empowers NDLEA Officers to be:
(a)
Working in collaboration with the department of customs and excise in
monitoring the movement of drugs and persons in any custom area,
custom stations, customs ports or airports, searching cargoes and out