The eight passengers that were intercepted earlier this afternoon by the NCDC betelnut Ban officials are now being cleared with all their bags being processed in front of the airport station.
Airport police are present while officials are sorting through all the bags and accounting for them.
A total of 18 bags were confiscated after an Air Niugini flight from Lae landed this afternoon.
National Airport Corporation staff have raised concerned of the Betelnut Ban officials coming into the airport site but the Airport Police Commander Robert Wane has clarified that they arrived to remove all the bags from an earlier haul from Kokoda and were called out to assist his officers and bring in the new lot cargo that were taken into custody.
Air Nuigini security through the PSC also raised the issue that they allowed only 2kg for consumption purposes, but this time the limit had been exceeded.