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Multi-BILLION naira worth of illicit drugs were on saturday seized at a warehouse tucked inside the international trade fair complex, Alaba, Ojo area of lagos by operatives of The National Drug Enforcement Agency NDLEA. Recovered from the  ware house owned by a wanted drug baron are 1.4million pills of tramol 225mg weighing 826 kilogrammes; 3.2 million pills of codine with gross weight of 3,360 kilogramme, and 2,841 cartons of codine syrup containing 284,100 bottles with 2,841 bottles with 28,410 litres of the psycho active substance, all having a combined street value of N4.8 billion. A Statement by the spokes man for  the NDLEA, Mr femi Babafemi, said in the operation that lasted hours, a suspect, paulinus surname withheld .The suspect who is on the wanted list of the police, has since been transfererred to the police, in sokoto state for further investigation.